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I know it seems weird that the morning after the polling industry and the election modelling industry suffered a “YUUUUGE” setback, the first thing we do is look at some new polls. And yet here we go.

Mainstreet Research is out this morning with a survey it did over the weekend. First, Mainstreet asked the 5,066 Canadians it got on the telephone (that’s a pretty big sample, by the way) who we would have voted for for president. We picked Clinton, according to Mainstreet, and it wasn’t even close:

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Even Alberta went for Clinton. Biggest hotbed of Trump support? Right there in Manitoba.

Now, there’s been a lot of chatter that many Americans would move to Canada if Trump won. So Mainstreet asked its Canadian respondents this question: “Some Americans have expressed if Donald Trump wins the US election they would like to move to Canada. If Donald Trump is elected president would you support making it easier for American Citizens to immigrate to Canada?” The answer. No thank you.

Final data point this morning in a tweet from Conrad Hackett of the very well-respected Pew Research Center: