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RSS FeedsPCs still lag behind Liberals despite launch of new platform
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

9 december 2017 12:04:01

 
PCs still lag behind Liberals despite launch of new platform
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Ontario voters do not yet seem to buy into Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown’s “People’s Guarantee” election platform, a new poll suggests.The Campaign Research survey shows Brown’s Tories have slipped slightly to 34 per cent — from 35 per cent last month — while Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals have inched ahead at 35 per cent compared with 32 per cent in November.Andrea Horwath’s New Democrats were 22 per cent — one percentage point lower than their 23 per cent in the previous survey — while the Greens led by Mike Schreiner were at 7 per cent, down from 9 per cent.Read more: Auditor takes aim at Wynne’s government over spending, waste, lax oversightMartin Regg Cohn: Is the shift to a carbon tax in Ontario worth the trouble?Wynne taking town hall road show to BramptonThat suggests Ontarians are in for a tightly contested June 7 election.Using an online panel of 1,495 Ontario voters, Campaign Research polled between Monday and Wednesday. A probability sample of that size would have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.The survey was conducted after the Nov. 25 release of the PC manifesto, which promises to reduce middle-income taxes and hydro bills while increasing money for mental health and improving child care tax breaks.Asked if the Tories got a bump in the tracking poll from their platform launch, Campaign Research CEO Eli Yufest said: “No, not at all.”“It’s kind of surprising because they were able to captivate a large audience,” he said Friday.Indeed, using techniques pollsters employ to determine brand awareness for corporate clients, the firm showed the online panel a photograph of the cover of the “People’s Guarantee” featuring a beaming Brown.His name, the party logo and the key promises from the platform were removed in order to gauge awareness.An impressive 29 per cent of respond ...


 
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