Dief’s jowls jiggled. His brows bristled.
“I’ve always been fond of dogs,” the Conservative leader declared, and the assembled media throng — the ones who had just informed him that Gallup had him losing, badly, to the Liberals — leaned ever closer.
“And they are the one animal that knows the proper treatment to give to poles.”
The ink-stained wretches burst out laughing, and scribbled away in their notebooks. Dief the Chief had conjured a political quote for the ages.
He was sort-of right, too, about the polls (and poles). Diefenbaker would go on to win, big time, shocking the pollsters and the pundits alike. And 1957 would become one of the biggest upsets in Canadian political history, with the Tories ending nearly a quarter-century of Grit rule.
In the intervening years, plenty of politicos have repeated Dief’s quotable quote, or offered up a variation on it: “The only poll that matters is the one on Election Day.”
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The author of the op-ed doesn’t take into account the number of disgruntled conservatives who are probably going to vote for Maxime Bernier’s PPC — as if THAT’s going to get Trudeau out of office.
In the meantime, shoppers at The Bay can buy happy socks with Trudeau’s likeness on them. I wonder if Elections Canada rules allow such gimmicks. I also wonder if Trudeau gets a cut of the profits.