Two different polls are showing Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in front of the Liberals: Pollster SES, in a poll conducted for CPAC, shows the Conservatives at 34%, Liberals with 32%, the New Democrats at 20%, the Bloc at 11% and the Green Party at 4%. The number of undecided Canadians has hit 22%. In Ontario, an Ipsos-Reid poll has the Tories with 35% of voter support in Ontario compared with 32% for the Liberals, who hold 97 of the province’s 103 seats in the House of Commons. Liberal columnist Hugh Winsor of the Globe and Mail says the media are Liberal accomplices in the election. Also says the original Liberal game plan is in shambles, “there is no doubt the Liberal campaign team is desperate to find a new wedge issue to hobble Stephen Harper. The strategists think they may have found it by portraying the Conservative Leader as a threat to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040608/ELECWINSOR08/TPColumnists/ Financial Post columnist Diane Francis, no friend of social conservatives, today berated Liberal strategists for their “blue-baiting” abortion and same-sex marriage tactics. Francis writes, “Blue-baiting” is the behaviour of the politically desperate. Like its first cousin, “red-baiting,” it’s all about stereotyping and demonizing. Blue-baiters, like red-baiters, label everything and everyone and indulge heavily in shaming.” To Francis, the Liberal’s sudden pre-occupation with abortion and same-sex marriage is “all about the Liberals changing the subject because the Tories have an attractive platform and leader.” http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/columnists/story.html?id=ebf559d4-ffb2-43bc-8add-f057fc27dc7d Liberal Leader Martin is in trouble after a Liberal riding association has bucked the PM’s parachute candidate and decided to back the NDP instead http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1086709917923_82119117/?hub=TopStories