La Presse is publishing the results of a pre-election survey -Synopsis/LaPresse - this morning
and it is good news for the CAQ. Under the leadership of Ms Christine Frechette, they
seem to have staged a comeback from the abyss to be considered a serious contender
for re-election.
What struck me about this is how important such pre-election polls can be. The detailled
analysis of the findings goes into how Ms Frechette is rated as competent and trustworthy.
And the fact that it is the Seniors population - ahem, my age group - who are the main
supporters of that faction. We don't get around that much; comforting to know that we
all agree she is aces. (As is her husband, the head of investment services at Desjardins, where
many elderly people bank).
So it is a three way race, with the PQ who are both aided and sidelined with their referendum
promise: aided, because it gives them young electors; handicaped because the oui is no stronger
than that.
And the liberals are slipping, increasingly incapable of appealing to Francophone voters, and now
no longer the refuge of New Quebecers.
Feels like the voting has already begun. In a sense, it has...
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