A Tale of two Lefties: Surging Orange and fading Red

The NDP are surging and the Liberals are receding according to the latest poll.

OTTAWA — Jack Layton's New Democrats have been reaping the benefits of an ongoing slide in Liberal support, a new poll suggests.

The latest Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll gave the NDP the 'support of 19 per cent of respondents, up from 14 per cent at the start of the campaign.

Those of us that watch politics close have often called the Liberal Party of Canada the Liberal Party of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver as that more closely resembled reality.

Now even that truism is fading away. Thanks the the "stellar leadership" of the Liberal leader Stephane Dion the last bastions of the Liberals are turning away from the Red and into the Orange and Blue.

In the cities, NDP support reached 22 per cent, up from a campaign low of 14 per cent, while the Liberals languished at 25 per cent — their lowest level of the campaign.

This means that the NDP and Liberals are statistically tied. Stephane Dion is destroying the once mighty Big Red. This should greatly help the vote splitting on the left with the NDP and Liberals very close together in popular support.

Stephane Dion, the greatest gift to Conservatives in 30 years. Whomever talked about sending thank you cards to Gerald Kennedy had a great idea, we really should.


We're better off with Harper.