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"Perspective" in Ottawa generally means an ability to remember what happened two weeks ago and, alas, Goat Boy was passed over when the television networks were last hiring. So here is a table of voter intention polling by Environics between 1978 and 2001. For the sake of the present discussion, note Liberal numbers throughout most of the 80s, particularly at the end of 1988, and then in late 1990 and early 1991.

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