With no major flubs or knock-out punches during the only televised leaders’ debate of the election campaign, B.C. residents say the NDP’s John Horgan won the night — but only by a slim margin.
A Mainstreet/Postmedia poll conducted immediately after the Wednesday debate asked 1,074 residents which leader performed the best, regardless of the party the respondents support: 33 per cent said Horgan, 29 per cent Green Leader Andrew Weaver and 28 per cent Liberal Leader Christy Clark. Ten per cent were undecided. The poll’s margin of error is three percentage points.
“We see here it is a very tight [three-way] race,” said David Valentin, vice-president of Mainstreet Research. “We are not seeing the result of any knockout punch in that debate.” Only Weaver received a decent favourability rating — 50 per cent liked him, compared with just over one-third of people liking Clark and Horgan.
Valentin cautioned this poll did not survey the general population, but only those who watched the debate. — Vancouver Sun
