Canada: Liberals pull even with the Corporate Whories, err, Tories

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Michael Ignatieff's Liberals have pulled into an end-of-summer dead heat with Stephen Harper's Conservatives, according to a new EKOS poll.

According to the poll results, released exclusively to CBC News, 29.4 per cent of respondents would vote for the Tories if an election were held today, compared with 29.1 per cent for the Liberals. The difference is well within the poll's margin of error.

The Conservatives held a comfortable 11-point lead over the Liberals at the beginning of the summer, but have faced mounting criticism for their moves to scrap the mandatory long-form census and the federal long-gun registry.

In the latest poll, the NDP's support dropped to 15.7 per cent, down from 17.4 per cent two weeks ago, while support for the Green Party rose almost three percentage points to 13 per cent, according to EKOS.

Meanwhile, support for the Bloc Québécois remained stable at 10.9 per cent, the poll suggested. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/09/01/ekos-poll-voter-intention.html#ixzz10xWRm04B