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Vaughn Palmer: Facing polling disaster, can B.C. NDP recover or just get worse?

Premier David Eby has 2½ years to climb of his hole, dig it deeper, or just step aside

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VICTORIA — For the first time since taking office in 2017, the B.C. New Democrats are confronted with evidence of a shocking and perhaps irreversible decline in their political fortunes and those of Premier David Eby.

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The New Democrats have enjoyed mostly favourable polls for going on nine years. They usually polled in majority territory and their opponents (Liberal, United, Conservative) were rarely competitive for long.

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