Angus Reid Poll Describes Harper as Secretive, Ignatieff Boring

That's a great analysis Piobar.  I would vote for Paul the Octopus as well lol.  Jack Layton has often struck me as one that likes to act behind a camera.  I was surprised at the honest part as well.  I suppose people forgot about his attempted power grab with the coalition agreement.  That didn't seem very honest to me. 

I think that polls are just that.  It also remains to be seen what the options were to pick.  The 39% are probably card carrying Liberals and the media has certainly been pushing that Harper is both secretive and dishonest. 

The overwhelming majority of the media has pushed issues that are not relevant to the bread and butter issues Canadians are concerned with and come from Toronto or Ottawa.  People feel though, when they loose their jobs and are faced with having to accept a lower paying or part time job. 

The silent majority often gets left in the dust. 

The problem is that here in Canada, the policies of the two main contenders for government are essentially the same. The Liberals and Conservatives differ on very little, when it comes to key policy issues. They argue over the details of it, like spoiled toddlers fighting over a toy. The other parties take sides based on who they think will win the argument. And most of the arguments that the politicians have are not based on facts, but name-calling and mud-slinging. The people cannot vote based upon the policy or the issues, because the parties either lack a clear and viable policy, or do not care about the issues. It is a matter of one party cutting money from National Defense and Education to pay for their raises, and another cutting it from Healthcare and Education. Either way, they get their raises and Canada loses out on important services....

Since Canadian party politics boils down to towing the party line, and the party-line tends to be the personal preference of the party leader as often as not, we are forced to judge that leader, and make our descisions about the party based upon that. an MP from the Yukon is unlikely to vote against his party, if he knows what is good for his job. The power is with the leadership, the differences in policy are negligable, and the options are few. As a result, the political system is flawed. I have watched the debates, I erad up on the issues, I see the ineptitude, and sheer childish way in which our politicians react to each other. They are all cut from the same clothe; they do what is right for themselves before what is right for Canada. They could all easily be replaced with automatic voting machines, or children with a magic eight ball, and we would not see a huge or drastic change in anything. Except maybe there would be a higher level of maturity in the house.