Surprise, the pundits were wrong: poll shows huge support for Leap Manifesto | Martin Lukacs

Canadians across the political spectrum want a bold challenge to the status quo-and it's up to the NDP to provide it

For weeks, the corporate media has spouted a stern prediction: Canadians will flee in horror from the Leap Manifesto. We are a "modest shift people," not "big shift people". The New Democratic Party, merely by endorsing to debate the document, would court "irrelevance."

A new poll shows just how wrong they were: far from recoiling from the Leap Manifesto, people are embracing it. Among the large and growing number of Canadians who have heard about the Leap Manifesto, half support it. That includes a majority of New Democrats and Greens, half of Liberal voters, and even twenty percent of Conservatives.