Never invade Russia in the winter. Never fight a land war in Asia. Never go for a third term as Prime Minister in Canada. It makes the electorate hate you. I don’t complain much about his policies, but Trudeau is screwing his own party over and now we might end up with the Trumpiest of Canadian politicians as PM.

    • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      11 months ago

      I would say it’s a very noisy signal but not meaningless. Also, one affects the other: the polling affects when there will be an election. Not now!

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      11 months ago

      I’m of the belief they use polling to help maintain the status quo of only really having 2 partys people want to choose. The polling helps them ensure no 3rd party steps in and starts gaining traction. A lot of people tell me its a waste of a vote if it isnt for the libs or the cons. The absolute reliance and normality of strategic voting is an obvious sign we are due for electoral reform and some new faces in parliament.

    • streetfestival@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      11 months ago

      Agreed. Except this might be useful info for the LPC. If Trudeau’s trailing PP by 15 points, maybe it’s hard to ignore that a new figurehead is needed for them to be competitive in the election. With all the climate change denialism going on, it’d be so disheartening to elect PP 😔

      • Oderus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        If the Liberals lose the next election, it won’t be because of Pierre, it’ll be despite Pierre. Like his idol Trump, Bitcoin Millhouse could shoot someone in the face on Sussex road and Conservatives would still vote for him. Liberal voters keep their party in check and will only vote when they do enough good things.

          • Oderus@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            11 months ago

            Not sure I’d go that far, but I’d say Liberals supporters are less sheep-like than Conservative supporters, generally speaking of course.

            • systemglitch@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              11 months ago

              Funny, because I honestly see no difference, they just sheep on different things, same goes for avid NDP supporters.

              • Oderus@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                11 months ago

                There are always sheep, regardless of views. My belief is that Conservatives have ‘better’ sheep because they rarely ever vote against their own party (even when damaging information comes to light) whereas LPC/NDP share a voter base and often cannibalize each others support.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        11 months ago

        Wasn’t that long ago Chrystia Freeland was supposed to take over the party leadership from Trudeau.

        Too bad the old boys’ network behind the scenes decided that wasn’t good enough and kept JT at the helm … and now the Libs pay the price for their stupidity.