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Dan's avatar

The Abacus report give one of the better insights in how the electorate in Canada is thinking about the various parties. For me the most interesting answer was this one:

40% say they would be more likely to vote Liberal if the economy improved

Unemployment is as low as it can go. Decent economic growth in the past years despite a pandemic. Why do people think that the economy is poor right now and needs to improve?

I suspect it is actually not about the state of the economy, but a function of confidence in the economy. How confident are people that their salaries will keep up with inflation (so far they have)? Are the retirement savings enough to retire in 15 years? Etc. etc. A lot of this is “feeling” and not fact.

I believe the challenge for the Liberals is to have Canadians “feel” good about the economy. Facts probably play only a minor role in this.

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Tim Hicks's avatar

I must have missed Poilievre's "positive" ads. Even the ones where he's tryin' ta be a regular guy, y'know, come across as smarmy and insincere. But yes, I am biased.

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