Federal Election 2015: NDP flounders as campaign turns a corner
"We're still looking at a close race between the Liberals and the Conservatives, which is what most polls are showing... We're starting to see some disagreement on that, but what they aren't disagreeing is that the New Democrats are dropping a little bit out of the race, now they're in third place."- Eric Grenier, poll analyst on CBC's Power & Politics
Since it got under way back in August, part of what's made this federal election campaign such a high stakes contest is that it was a tight three-way race. But the latest polls show that that could be changing.
The niqab debate and the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade deal are just two of the latest high profile issues to seemingly alter this campaign's course.
And it seems the campaign buses of the Conservatives and Liberals are pulling into the lead... leaving the NDP's bus trailing in third.
Whether the two-way race is a new reality, or just the latest blip, is what our panel focused in on today.
- Hannah Thibedeau is a national parliamentary reporter for CBC News.
- Susan Delacourt is a columnist with The Toronto Star and the author of "Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them."
- Erin Kelly is the CEO of the data science firm, Advanced Symbolics.
They were all in our Ottawa studio.
How have things changed for you over the course of this campaign? Have you switched your vote? Stuck to your guns? Are you still making up your mind?
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This segment was produced by The Current's Gord Wesmacott and Julian Uzielli.