Conservative support continues to plummet

There was some great news late last week as an EKOS poll found that not has support for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government continued to plummet, but support for the Conservative Party has dropped below 30% for the first time since 2006. And once again, as polling continues to prove, that Canada's true majority lies on the centre-left: 28.5% for the Liberal Party, 17.4% for the New Democratic Party, and 11.1% for the Green Party. These figures combined totals 56.9%, and with the seperatist but progressive Bloc Quebecois at 10.4%, that total rises to a whopping 67.3% of the Canadian electorate which does not support Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government. Plus, if Canada didn't have an antiquated, undemocratic electoral system (first-past-the-post) and instead had the much more democratic proportional representation, Canada would truly have a government that reflected the will of the people.

CBC News:

The federal Conservatives' lead over the Liberal Party appears to have evaporated, with both parties virtually tied at the same level of support, a new EKOS poll suggests.

The ruling Tories had enjoyed a notable lead over the Liberals in recent weeks, but the latest poll, released exclusively to CBC, found that 29.7 per cent of respondents would vote for the Tories if an election were held today, compared with 28.5 per cent for the Liberals.

Support for the Conservatives had not dropped below 30 per cent since late 2006.

Support for the Liberals has gone up by three percentage points since the previous week, while the Tories have seen a 3.5 percentage point drop.

There were no marked shifts in support for the NDP (17.4 per cent), Green Party (11.1 per cent) and Bloc Québécois (10.4 per cent).

According to the poll, the Conservative Party is leading in every region except for Atlantic Canada, Quebec (where support for the Bloc dominates with 41 per cent), and British Columbia, where support for the Conservatives and the NDP is within the same range.

But the Tories are not seeing strong support as a "second choice" party. When respondents were asked which party would be their second choice, the NDP had 17.7 per cent support, followed by the Liberals (16.6 per cent), Green Party (12.9 per cent) and the Conservatives (10.3 per cent).

The poll also suggested that while slightly more Canadians (46.7 per cent) believe the Conservative government is moving in the wrong direction, 41 per cent think the country is moving in the right direction.

The random survey of 1,516 Canadians aged 18 and over was conducted July 28 to Aug. 3and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2.52 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.