PCs Leading, But Three-Way Race Shaping Up in Ontario

Also, all the party leaders are kinda terrible, apparently.

With less than a week to go before the writ drops on the Ontario provincial election (so exciting!), the latest poll finds that while the Progressive Conservatives hold a lead, all three major parties are garnering enough support to make this exercise in democracy even more exciting than provincial politics usually are. Tim Hudak's PCs polled at 38 per cent support in the Toronto Star/ Angus Reid poll, while Dalton McGuinty's Liberals trailed at 31 per cent and Andrea Horwath's NDP isn't too far behind at 24 per cent. If those numbers hold, that could translate to a PC minority government, but the vote's a ways off yet so take it for what it's worth. What's a lot more interesting, though, is that poll respondents really don't like any of the party leaders, with both Hudak and McGuinty nabbing just 21 per cent support apiece and Horwath trailing at 12 per cent. Nearly as many – 16 per cent – said none of the leaders were any good, and a full 29 per cent didn't know one way or the other. All of which boils down to this: The biggest problem facing all three parties is their leaders.