Blue Like You | A Maclean’s article that didn’t give me heartburn

Paul Wells’ latest piece in Macleans (Generation Harper ) is one for CPC supporters to savour. It seems that Stephen Harper is outperforming Stephane Dion in the race to resonate with the under-40 ‘wellsprings of new voter support’. This according to Frank Graves of Ekos research. Also, there is the beginning of a trend among Canadians to self-identify as conservative over liberal:

...Graves identified two big trends emerging. One is a steady, marked shift in Canadians’ political identification from liberal to conservative. That’s obviously bad news for the federal Liberals. The other trend looks less menacing: the emergence of two broad cohorts of under-40 voters, one broadly left-leaning, the other more conservative. Since they’re about the same size they should more or less balance out. Except both of these groups of younger voters have their own generational quirks, and so far Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have had better luck reaching out to “their” young voters than the post-Paul Martin Liberals have to “theirs.”

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