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Tory polling shows party neck and neck with Liberals

By BRIAN LAGHI
From Friday's Globe and Mail

Ottawa — Stephen Harper is having a hard time staying underrated.

Three weeks after taking the helm of the new party, talk of a new internal poll has made Conservative MPs more buoyant about the future than they have been in a decade, and that's not necessarily the best news for a leader whose fortunes have risen on consistently being taken too lightly.

Sources told The Globe and Mail that the survey, done by party pollster Praxicus Public Strategies, shows the Conservatives almost neck and neck with the federal Liberals outside of Quebec. According to the poll, the Grits have the support of 32 per cent of the voting public outside the province, with the Conservatives running about a percentage point behind.

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