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Election Poll Update

Over the last couple of days, the Conservatives have lost some of their lead as our poll gets noticed all over the country. Amazingly, the number of votes coming in from Lower Canada (Ontario) has begun to rival votes from Central Canada (Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba). Of course, Central Canada still easily leads voting numbers. This may be due to the fact that very few people bother to fill out census forms and population numbers may actually be way off target in Central Canada. Hopefully with a renewed confidence in the Federal system, citizens will participate in Canadian procedures more often in the future. For now it seems that the ruling government has pissed off enough people to get them to vote in our poll, so actual voter turn-out may be surprising this year. The last time the ruling party was defeated, that party lost so many seats in the House of Commons, that the entire party was dismantled. Voting numbers have tailed off somewhat in the last couple of days but Tuesday was our biggest day so far with 26 votes. Still, the Liberals have not picked up enough support to suggest that they will retain official party status as history has showed us what happens in a landslide type of situation.

As a side note, political controversy has come to Saskatoon as Mike Duffy of CTV reported Thursday evening. The desperate Liberal candidate, Chris Axworthy, who by the way never had a hope of winning his seat in the NDP/Conservative battleground Saskatoon, allowed "someone" in his office to make a prank phone call to a televised debate that he wasn't invited to. Details on this developing story are being posted at a fast pace on many blogs including these links:

Y2Bray

JordonCooper

ABFreedom

Strongworld

Lifesite

Coincidentally, the Liberal leadership candidate and outgoing Prime Minister, Paul Martin, had just completed a visit to the riding in Saskatoon's very politically charged north-end riding, Wanuskewin.

posted by Jared Mysko @ 11:14 p.m.