In an online poll this week, Village Media readers overwhelmingly thought that the Liberals would be better off if they went into the next election with a new leader The polls are surely causing the federal Liberals some sleepless nights. The Conservatives have been consistently in the lead since October of last year. 338Canada, a poll aggregator, predicts a 50 per cent chance of a Conservative minority, and a 40 per cent chance of a Conservative majority. Now, there are structural factors in Canadian politics that make Liberal votes more efficiently distributed than Conservative ones, but there are also trends that will worry them, like eroding support in Atlantic Canada, which has long been both a reliable bulwark of support for the party and has a disproportionate number of seats in relation to its population. It isn't as if Canadian party leaders haven't won four consecutive elections in the past, but it isn't common ... CLICK HERE to read the...
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