Astroturf? Some astroturf!

Since Monday, Liberal and NDP MPs have been bombarded with angry phone calls and e-mails from constituents. You can see that -- they're a bit shell-shocked when they're asked about it by journalists. I think to an interview Mike Duffy did with B.C. NDP MP Peter Julian, who admitted that he has been swamped, but ascribed those calls to nefarious "Albertans", not his own constituents. Others have been using the word "astroturf" -- as in fake grassroots, not real grassroots.

Nice try.

Here are the latest poll numbers -- I've never seen such a cataclysmic change in such a short period of time. The Conservatives have literally jumped 10 to 20 points in a week. Here are the numbers in three polls, as reported by Bourque:

COMPAS: CPC 51, LPC 20, NDP 10, BQ 8, GPC 6
Ipsos: CPC 46, LPC 23, NDP 13, BQ 9, GPC 8
Ekos: CPC 44, LPC 24, NDP 15, BQ 9, GPC 8

Astroturf? Nice try. That's beautiful, natural green, green grass -- a sign that Canadians don't abide undemocratic putschs, done with the aid of Quebec separatists.