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And in another shocker - Julie Van Duesen just complimented Jim Flaherty after his speech. Maybe some in the media are realizing that they just might get something they don’t really want.

So let’s review the media regions endorsing Harper:

Halton
Whitby-Ajax-Oshawa-Clarington
Kitchener-Waterloo

BSB - If anyone has links to other newspapers endorsing Harper, please let me know and I’ll post them. Thanks.

The National Post endorsed the CPC yesterday, of course.

You beat me to it. I was just going to say what a good column there is today by Andrew Coyne.

Joanne - I think I put a comment with a link on your blog which didn’t go through - I forgot, sorry.

Anyway, over at MacLeans - Scott Feschuk is mocking Harpers statement about his mother by an “open letter to Steve’s mom”.

Just goes to show how it makes no difference what the PM says - it will be taken, stirred up, spit out and mocked by the media and the opposition.

Thanks, AG. I’m not sure why that one got stuck in the filter but I unleashed it now.

Link to Coyne here.

It also tells me that the way Harper has handled himself is exactly the right way.

Feschuk is wrong to have done what he’s done. I do believe he should be outted and his political leanings as well.

After all if it were a conservative partisan making fun of, oh, I don’t know Dion’s wife picking out his undies for him…I’m sure the Liberals would cry foul…long and loud.

One last thing before I go for a few hours.

Joanne, Paulstuff, sammy — what do you think the implications to Harper’s campaign will be when they announce how much the war in Afghanistan is costing us?

usual outrage by the NDP of course, but where are the Liberals on this considering we had to pick up their mess of underfunding and poorly supporting our fighting men and women.

Is it going to send the usual MSM gnats into a swarm again. Making Dion out to be the Pilsbury Dough Boy and Harper Oscar the Grouch?

Something to think and plan for I do believe.

WHERE ARE THE ADS!!! They’re AWOL

The fact that the Record is willing to endorse a Conservative government is clearly a step in a different direction for this traditionally Liberal Rag. Unfortunately despite the positive endorsements from several papers in the past few days, most people get their daily dose of news from the television media. Since the debates last week the television media is in full Stephane Dion support mode. Most of the “journalists” covering the election have a gleem in their eye when they report about the Conservative decline in the polls and the “lack of compassion” the PM has for Canadians worried about the current economic situation. No matter what the PM says to show how the government has worked to maintain a solid econmomy in comparison to the rest of the industrialized world, the message is tilted and spun in favour of the Liberals.

Good government is not overtaxing the population to build surpluses to spend on useless programs for niche groups. If a Liberal government is elected, that is what we will see

Layton irresponsibly talked about the 1930’s financial crisis and attempted to compare that to today’s troubles. He also likes to criticize our involvement in the Afghan conflict. He tells us that we cannot win. Layton should tell that to the millions of Afghan children, especially the girls who are now going to school for the first time in their lives; I am sure that millions of them consider themselves ‘big winners’.
Since Layton likes comparisons with the 1930’s, we should remind him from time to time of his predecessor of the day (Woodsworth), the leader of the same left wing party, who infamously voted in the Canadian parliament opposing our country’s involvement in the WW2 war against Mr. Hitler and his Nazis, a disgrace to that party, then and now. It seems that that leopard has not changed it’s spots.

I have sent links to nationalnewswatch before, and the links were put on their site.

I just sent the record piece.
Jo, suggest you compile the links, send them their and see if national newswatch will bundle them up into a ‘Harper endorsement’ segment.

news@nationalnewswatch.com

The TSX is up about 170 as I write, so that will help, if it holds.

Re the polls, I just did a quick and dirty analysis of Nik Nanos’s numbers over the last three days, showing the 1200-sample rolling average percentage, followed by what the three previous 400-sample percentages could have been:

Mon @ 29 % meant, say 29,29,29 previous 3 days
Tues @ 31 % meant 35,29,29
Wed @ 29 % meant 23,35,29

Now 23 % is based on a 400-sample, so has a high Margin of Error, but its going to remain in Niks 3-day calculation for Thurs,Fri,Sat. The 35 % drops off when Sat rolls around.

It’s insane that so much seems to ride on Nik’s small daily numbers, but that’s what we have. It’s all about the perception of momentum.

Also insane, as the Globe reported yesterday, those making $60,000+, and losing in the marker, are taking their frustrations out on Harper ! How can you be smart enough to make 60 grand, but dumb enough to think Harper has anything to do with this global market downturn ?!

Wilson, an endorsement segment is a great idea!

Conservative bloggers should be sharing & posting this info. Thanks.

Ooops, my mistake, Nik’s 35 % drops off Friday. The 23 % drops off Saturday.

Thanks Jo.
With this worst in 50 years world crisis going on, the Harper campaign needs as much help as it can get.

I have no doubt, PMSHs first concern is the crisis and the campaign is taking a back seat to talking to other world leaders and agencies and Premiers.

Yah know, all the things Dion promised to do in 30 days, PMSH is handling right now, on top of the most important election in decades.
The man is amazing.

I just did an email poll for Ipsos that just came in. It’s the first time they’ve polled me about politics in this campaign. I told them I was an ‘undecided’ voter. The survey went on to list about 20 issues and I was to rate if they were important to me on a scale of 1 to 7. Then they asked if I felt that these same 20 or so issues would be addressed better or worse in the coming year. A question about if I felt my personal financial position would be better or worse a year from now. And finally, they asked if I would particpate in a lengthy poll on election day.

Of the 20 issues, 7 of them were economic including ‘do you think SD and the Liberals have a strong plan for uncertain economic times’,'do you think SH and the Conservatives etc’, ‘are you afraid of losing your job’, ‘do you think Canada will go into recession’,'do you think that the government should inject money into job creation even if it means going into deficit’ and ‘do you think that government interference with the ecomony even in the short term is a positive force (or something like that).

I’m betting it’s a CPC commissioned poll.

heh! hubby just got the same poll and said he was a liberal and SD was the country’s saviour! LMAO. See… people lie. I lie mostly because over the years everytime I self-identify as a conservative, I never get another poll.

See… people lie. I lie mostly because over the years everytime I self-identify as a conservative, I never get another poll

Annie - LMAO!

I got Ipsos too. Same poll.

All the news today re: our banks tops and the Economist endorsing Harper, plus the papers in Ontario coming out with their own Harper endorsements tells me one thing, and clearly.

It tells me that the papers on the ground are more credible than the MSM or Parliamentary Press Gallery, simply because they get their sources directly from the grassroot voters. The MSM and PPG are too obsessed with sticking it to Harper to have been blinded by the fact that:1)ordinary folks can’t stand what they’re doing, 2)their bias shows clearly and it’s not something most looking for balanced reporting respect, and 3)it proves that it’s the MSM and the polls that are out of touch with ordinary Canadians.

I just watch a clip of Dion, still flapping his hands like it’s time for his nap or something.

Oh, and I do believe that the latest news re: the cost of war in Afghanistan was reponded to excellently by Harper - heard Craig Oliver try to corner him with a smarmy question but he didn’t bite.

I also believe that the Afghanistan issue, if the MSM make a big deal of it works for the NDP and Jack Layton and further threatens the Martin/Dion team.

A hearty puffinpoop to you!

Brett, I was wondering the same thing. Notice today that Harper said you have a choice between PM Harper or PM Dion.

The consequences of that thought are beginning to sink in, I’ll bet.

I agree with other comments here…attacking Mr. Harper’s mother in any way, shape or form is “off limits” and very disrespectful.

You’re right I’m Shocked.

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