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Leadnow, which wants to encourage anti-Conservative strategic voting, has fresh new polls Tuesday that require me to eat some crow.

The group has had Environics conduct riding-level surveys in places expected to have close races, including in Kanata-Carleton and Nepean — ridings where it’s reasonable to imagine the Tory candidates winning but not securing majorities. What they want is to figure out which non-Conservative is closest to winning, and then encourage the other parties’ supporters to back that candidate even if they have to hold their noses to do it.

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They’re pretty agnostic as between Liberals, New Democrats and even Greens. Whichever non-Tory is best-placed to win, that’s who they want you to vote for. As before, in Ottawa they’re working with Ecology Ottawa, whose theory is that any of the other parties would be better for the environment than the Conservatives.

Leadnow released a previous batch of polls in September that included several suburban Ottawa ridings, about which I wrote this: