Quebec is on the verge of having a political overhaul, as a party of the Francophone right has emerged, merging the ADQ with a new Coalition-Avenir-Québec headed up by ex-Pequiste François Legault. How much of a future does the Coalition for Quebec's Future have?
A poll conducted by CROP for La Presse newspaper found 39 per cent of respondents in favor of the CAQ, with 28 per cent favoring the Liberal Party, and 18 per cent favoring the Parti Québécois. A second poll, conducted by Léger Marketing for Le Devoir newspaper, found 37 per cent in support of the CAQ, with 24 per cent supporting the PQ, and 22 supporting the Liberals.
By those numbers, if an election were held now, the CAQ could win close to 100 of the national assembly's 125 seats, easily forming a majority government.
The PQ and Liberals could be reduced to about a dozen seats each.
I'd only been following the Legault party sporadically, but it seems to be doing well. It has the advantage of not having a recent track record, since Legault is a retired PQ leader coming back into the fray. Right not it's the not-PQ and not-Liberal party, which holds roughly the same spot as being the not-Mitt in the GOP race.
Those poll numbers portend an interesting future for Quebec. Throwing in the Quebec City centric ADQ into the mix will make vote-splitting on the right a non-problem.
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The Lions got their first winning season in a decade, pulling off yet another 4th quarter turnaround, with a 28-27 win over Oakland. Megatron finally broke out of a mid-season slump and went off for a career-high 214 yards and a pair of TDs, including the gamer.
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This has been all over the conservative Blogosphere over the weekend; Christopher Hitchens passed on, getting to find out he was wrong about his devout atheism. He had been fighting cancer and was in an awkward spot of being an atheist being prayed over for healing by friend and foe alike. He was one of the bigger thorns in the side of theists, but also was a thinking liberal (no, not an oxymoron) who was on the conservative side on fighting Islamic radicals.
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