Majority want Harper replaced, poll shows

Also from the Globe & Mail, another poll reveals some interesting insights:

Stephen Harper moved yesterday to revive his political fortunes in the electoral heartland of Ontario even as a new poll shows that 59 per cent of Canadians want him replaced, including more than one-third of his own supporters.

What is it about Harper that inspires some dislike? Earlier I mentioned that the problem wasn't his personality, it was his party's policies. After more though, I realized it's more a combination of both. The policies suck but his angry tone hurts things even more. Flash back to Harper's speech he and his party failed to defeat the government in a non-confidence vote:

Harper, in a carefully crafted address to the Conservative caucus after the vote, called the latter budget victory Pyrrhic, "one that will sow the seeds of its own destruction . . ."

In previous years, an opposition leader would have recognized they had lost the battle this time and taken it with grace. Not so with Harper. This is not the Conservative party of old. This is a party with absolutely no respect for parliamentary institutions, no respect for democracy and no respect for those who hold opinions contrary to their own. In short, it is Harper who has lowered the level of debate in the House of Commons.

Interesting the article also mentions:

The other major leaders -- the NDP's Jack Layton and the Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québécois' -- fared significantly better, with only 15 per cent saying Mr. Layton's performance had dropped and 17 per cent saying the same of Mr. Duceppe.

But it fails to mention the more impressive part which you'll see if you look at the poll numbers further down the page. And that is 1/3 of Canadians have a better opinion of Jack Layton and the NDP (the highest level) and 78% of Canadians think he should remain the leader (also the highest).