The Liberal campaign is spiralling into anger and negativity as they lose momentum
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Summary
In the final stretch of the election campaign, the Liberals are in a pick-me-up position in the polls, but there is still a long way to go in the campaign. Canadians are on the edge of casting their ballots, and there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the possibility of a change in the outcome.
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the liberal attitude around the campaign shows that they're losing you know the fact that terry
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guillant assaulted your reporter outside the debates commission last week i mean this is a
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campaign that is like flailing out of control spiraling in negativity the viral image of the
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bramford boomer i think is an actual liberal campaign worker with the you know double middle
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finger at an independent journalist um for daring to just be at a mark carney event
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and she's not the only one with uh having that experience you know there were multiple images
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of older angry liberal supporters or staffers you know they're they're really kind of angry
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and deranged um and then you contrast that with Pierre Polyev who you know he's been getting big
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union endorsements the former liberal premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell just came out
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and endorsed him. Moses Simner, the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. He's building
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this sort of optimistic coalition. I think that they have the momentum going into the final
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stretch. They've closed the gap. At one point earlier in the campaign, the Liberals and Mark
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Kearney were up by 10, 12 points. Now, by most accurate, honest pollsters, it's neck and neck,
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like a tie maybe. I think that Kearney has lost this election. It's just a matter of who's going
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get the minority is it going to be the liberals is it going to be conservative mostly how is that
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vote going to be distributed final thing is uh early voting my husband and i went out and uh
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took part in the advanced poll voting and record elections canada say a record uh 7.3 million
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canadians voted in the advanced polling which means that we might get the most uh we might set
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a new record ezra for the highest voter turnout ever so i think canadians agree this is an incredibly
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important election and really it's like which path we're going down fear and anger and and you know
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the double middle finger towards others or um this op this campaign of optimism and hope for
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the future and sort of restoring the canadian promise what do you think yeah david coletto is
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one of my favorite pollsters he's with a polling company called abacus and he had a tweet the other
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day that i thought was fascinating he said um is it true that the liberals have lost a 15 point
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To believe that, you have to believe that they ran a horrible campaign
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or that the conservatives ran a terrific campaign,
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or, he posited, is this response bias to pollsters.
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David Coletto, a pollster, is saying that people were not telling the truth to pollsters.
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And I had to Google response bias because I didn't really know what it meant.
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It means things like you want to tell the pollster what you think is socially acceptable
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or there's a peer pressure going on, so you'll say one thing,
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on the phone, but you'll mark it at X on a ballot differently.