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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.republicans,sac.politics,can.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Most Conservative voters say they don't trust media reports on party leaders: poll
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:16:52 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: NetKnow News

In article <f01p0khjehocrum4ol2p4moj8s9hh9s5ht@4ax.com>,
Governor Swill  <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:08:34 -0000 (UTC), Pierre J.
><pierrej@torontosun.com> wrote:
>
>>OTTAWA — A new poll suggests more than half of Conservative voters don't
>>trust what they see or hear about federal party leaders in the media
>>during the current election campaign. 
>
><shock>  <gasp>  REally?
>
>>Fifty-six per cent of people who identified as Conservatives in the
>>Leger poll said they had little trust — or none at all — in media
>>reports about party leaders. 
>>
>>Just over one-quarter of Liberal voters who responded to the poll, and
>>about two in five NDP voters, expressed a lack of trust in the media. 
>>
>>Leger polled 1,603 adults online from last Thursday through Monday of
>>this week. 
>>
>>Online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not
>>randomly sample the population. 
>>
>>Canadians head to the polls for the general election on April 28.
>>
>>Overall, 52 per cent of Canadians surveyed by Leger expressed some trust
>>or a great deal of trust in media coverage of the leaders during the
>>election campaign. 
>>
>>But 43 per cent said they were skeptical of what they were reading and
>>hearing — a figure that troubles Patrick White, a journalism professor
>>at the Université du Québec à Montréal. 
>>
>>"It's quite worrisome and concerning to see that so many Canadians don't
>>trust news media coverage during such an important democratic moment,"
>>White said. 
>>
>>"So I'm very concerned for the future."
>>
>>Seventy-three per cent of Liberal voters surveyed by Leger expressed
>>trust in the media, compared to 50 per cent of New Democrats and just 41
>>per cent of Conservatives. Fifty-four per cent of Bloc Québécois
>>supporters and 55 per cent of Green voters said they trusted media
>>coverage. 
>>
>>White suggested more research is needed to fully understand the "huge
>>gap" in trust levels between Liberal and Conservative voters. 
>>
>>He pointed to the generally stronger support in Liberal circles for
>>government financial assistance for media outlets struggling to survive
>>with dwindling advertising revenues. 
>>
>>Some Canadians are looking beyond mainstream outlets to right-leaning
>>sources or are shunning the media altogether, White added. 
>>
>>"There is a huge phenomenon of news avoidance," he said.
>>
>>The survey found 64 per cent of respondents were somewhat or very
>>concerned about the possibility of encountering fake or manipulated
>>images, videos or audio clips during the election campaign. 
>>
>>Only 28 per cent said they had personally witnessed any attempts to
>>mislead or misinform voters about a party, a candidate or the voting
>>process. 
>>
>>White said Canadians have been expressing worries about manipulated
>>content for the last two or three years, so it's good news that only
>>about one-quarter of those surveyed reported actually seeing it in the
>>campaign. 
>>
>>"It seems to me like we still have good safeguards in the news ecosystem
>>in Canada," he said. 
>>
>>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 23, 2025.
>>
>>Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
>>
>>https://ca.news.yahoo.com/most-conservative-voters-dont-trust-080013943.h
>>tml
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>that had more power and more wealth than the United States does today.
> 
>Not Rome, not Egypt, not China or the oldest, India.
>
>The United States of America
>
>Why aren't you magas satisfied with that?

Pools indicate a huge Carney win.  Maybe a majority of 20 .
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