Explosive Results

By Baxter

Here's a fun news flash — and just in time for Canada Day to have morphed into the Fourth of July:

Canadians like Democrats.

Specifically, they like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. In fact, "if Canadians were deciding the next US President, Hillary Clinton would win by the largest landslide in the country's history," says a Mainstreet poll conducted in the True North at the end of June.

Highlights of the survey include:

• Hillary as the Democratic nominee would beat Jeb! Bush, 72 percent to 16 percent.
• Hillary would crush all other Republican candidates by similar margins.
• Amusingly, the Canadian-born Rafael Cruz, Jr. scraped the bottom of the popularity barrel, coming in behind Baby Marco Rubio, Jeb!, Rand Paul and even Donald Trump. (Now, that's low.)
• Seventy-five percent of respondents said they "totally approved" of President Obama's performance in office.

So, too bad that Canadians can't vote in the US next year! But this fun poll also has a more sobering side. It shows how insidious our American-style, polarized media are.

See, we cats are convinced that in FOX "News"-less, Rush Limbaugh-less Canada, news consumers are simply not as brainwashed as their American counterparts are. Informed by a more reasoned, less partisan and broader media diet, they see no reason to vote for Republicans. Any Republican. We cats agree, and we PURR.