Pollster Nik Nanos is out with his latest look at voter intentions -- headline: Grits and Tories tied -- but one of the interesting things he says is that some soft NDP voters may have moved over to the Liberals because of the Lukiwski comments.
Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski was caught on tape 17 years ago making a vicious anti-gay remark -- a remark he immediately apologized for as soon as the tape came to light. Nanos says his poll was in the field as this came to light. In the poll, NDP support has dropped by five points. In Ontario, support for the Liberals climbed and NDP support dropped.
"It's quite possible that some soft Ontario New Democrats have strategically parked with the Liberals to block the Tories," Nanos said.
Here's the big picture numbers:

• Conservatives: 36 per cent (up 5 points since the last poll in Feb. 2008)
• Liberals: 36 per cent (up 3)
• NDP: 14 per cent (down 5)
• Bloc Québecois: 8 per cent (down 2)
• Green Party: 6 per cent (down 2)

Nanos surveyed 827 Canadians by telephone between April 4 and 9. The pollster says the results are accurate for the national sample to within 3.4 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

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