Handler dumping, election polls, signage,

Here in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington I can sum up the riding with a photo!

Settlers from Scotland, the USA, put down roots in our region.

A very conservative riding.
The motto of the region: 'back off, government'.


Living in the outskirts of a town, no door-knocking candidates here!

Our Green Party S-I-L candidate is going door-to-door. Hours of campaigning.

Campaign donations are rolling in.

Campaign donation!

Campaign teams have been knocking on doors across the country.

I suppose it is good exercise!
On the other hand, here is an exercise in deception.
In this not-so-surprising photo (below)
you can see Joe Volpe and his handler, the latter dumping a Green Party pamphlet, replacing it with the Liberal red.

A Joe Volpe campaign worker swapping Liberal pamphlet for a GPC flyer

-Liberal Switch-er-roo (Pic by pic)
-Liberal Switch-er-roo (Contact sheet)
Great photo captures by a Green Party canvasser:

Orla Hegarty photos

Kady O'Malley was in on figuring out what was up.  Finally had a response from Joe Volpe's campaign..."When this issue about the canvasser was brought to my attention by the Green Party candidate... in deference to his concern and to the hard work of my own campaign, the canvasser was released by the campaign."

The polls say:

NANOS POLL

Strength in Ontario puts ‘squeaker of a majority’ within Harper’s reach

The NDP is at 16.9 per cent support in Ontario compared to 47.8 per cent support for the Conservatives and 29.3 per cent for the Liberals. That’s Mr. Ignatieff’s lowest level of support in the province since the election began and Mr. Nanos said Mr. Harper has been the main beneficiary of the Grit slide. (The margin of error is plus or minus 5.6 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.)

No, Nanos, no!

Harper's lowered tax cuts for business irks me. Then I read this US-based article: 

9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes

Basically, it is true. The rich get richer, and in the US don't pay taxes...

' Mad Men who once ran campaigns featuring doctors extolling the health benefits of smoking are now busy marketing the dogma that tax cuts mean broad prosperity, no matter what the facts show.

It’s true that the top 1 percent of wage earners paid 38 percent of the federal income taxes in 2008 (the most recent year for which data is available). But people forget that the income tax is less than half of federal taxes and only one-fifth of taxes at all levels of government.

Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance taxes (known as payroll taxes) are paid mostly by the bottom 90 percent of wage earners.  That’s because, once you reach $106,800 of income, you pay no more for Social Security, though the much smaller Medicare tax applies to all wages. Warren Buffett pays the exact same amount of Social Security taxes as someone who earns $106,800.'