Tories slip back to election level: poll

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives have slipped in popular support to the level they garnered in January when they won a minority government, a poll released on Friday showed.

The SES Research survey put the Conservatives at 36 percent, down from 38 percent in its last poll in May and identical to what they won on January 23.

The Liberals recovered to 30 percent, again the same as in the election. In May they stood at 28 percent. The leftist New Democrats, who had 17.5 percent in the election, polled at 18 percent.

"As the numbers from our latest national survey came in Wednesday evening, this pollster had a serious case of deja vu -- pretty well exactly the same numbers as the last federal election," SES President Nik Nanos said in a statement.

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