EKOS in the News - June 1, 2009
Minority Government Possible for Liberals, poll suggests - CBC.ca
Excerpt:
The EKOS poll released Monday exclusively for the CBC suggests the Liberals would likely squeak into a minority government.
The poll found 33.5 per cent of respondents would vote Liberal. Another 32.3 per cent said they would vote Conservative, and 15.1 per cent said they would vote NDP.
The poll of 10,896 randomly selected Canadians was conducted between May 7 and May 28.
Up until the deficit news of May 26, the Conservatives appeared to have been benefiting from the fact some more prosperous Canadians, perhaps with an eye more to the stock market than the job market, were becoming more optimistic about the economic future.
However, their advantage among the more prosperous appeared to vanish after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty revealed Ottawa expected a budgetary shortfall of $50 billion for the 2009-10 fiscal year that will end in March 2010.
“The overall picture these numbers paint is slightly more positive for the Liberals,” EKOS president Frank Graves said. “But the situation is clearly quite volatile, and [none of the parties] could force an election right now confident that they would win, much less form a majority.”
Rounding out the poll, the Green party was the party of choice for 10.4 per cent of respondents, followed by 8.7 per cent who favoured the Bloc Québécois.
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