Digital Politics
The pre-campaign thus far
In 1986, Richard Petty and John Cacioppo developed a model which outlined two routes by which a person (or an audience) is persuaded by a speaker to believe a…
Paul Martin
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CBC
CBC airs Trudeau on eve of election
Did anyone else notice that the national broadcaster re-aired its ‘critically acclaimed’ 2-part, 4-hour mini-series on Pierre Trudeau on what may be, perhaps,…
Elections
Martin to drop the writ on May 9th?
The latest rumours and indications do show that the Liberal party is gearing-up for a late-spring election. I believe that the writ will be dropped on May 9th…
Stephen Harper
New Conservative ads
The Conservative Party of Canada released television ads yesterday. The spots feature a casual-looking Stephen Harper leaning against his desk. Harper mentions…
Elections
Liberals back at 35%
Paul Martin woke up to a headache this morning when he learned that his Liberal party had sunk back to its previous low of 35% in the polls. The “mad as hell”…
Liberal Party of Canada
Martin is desperate
The latest polling numbers from Quebec indicate to Mr. Martin that a spring election would be an unwise decision. In the latest CROP poll, the Liberals are 10…
Elections
Liberal Lawn Signs
Here’s what the new Liberal lawn signs are going to look like (Thanks Warren!) Now, of course, an election is only a “rumour”. However, Richard Mahoney, the…
Liberal Party of Canada
The Paul Martin Show
The Toronto Star has a report this morning about the Liberal strategy for the upcoming election. As I’ve said before, the Liberal strategy is going to be to…
Conservative Party of Canada
The Next Honourable Member
It was a hard fought race with three of us lending our name to our members to choose the next Conservative member from Kingston and the Islands. Blair MacLean,…