Twitter

Saturday, September 10, 2011

The recent public opinion poll

The Praxis Analytics polling released this past week is very interesting. It bears repeating the numbers here; Sask Party 63.4%, NDP 26.1%, Liberal 5.9%, Green 3% and 'Others' 1.5%. 800 folks were sampled during the last week of August and the first week of September.

The implications of these results should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain. With the Sask Party now polling over 60% provincewide, it now commands most of the free enterprise vote and some of the NDP electoral base too. Brad Wall and the Sask Party have the potential with these numbers to win every one of the 58 seats in the Legislature. This means MLAs like Warren McCall in the fabled NDP stronghold of Regina Elphinstone-Centre are even in the fight of their lives. The NDP will struggle this fall to win any seats at all.

It appears that Brad Wall's popularity is growing,and the hatred of Dwain Lingenfelter is also growing. Wall has played all of moves right, and the province's population and economy both continue to grow hand in hand. Meanwhile 'Link' completely underestimated his Sask Party opponents when he returned to Saskatchewan in 2009, and thought he would cruise back into government easily. It will be most curious to see which of its 20 seats the NDP can hang onto on November 7.

No comments: