Harper tops burger poll

Apparently it is or was National Hamburger Day and, to celebrate, the pollsters at Ipsos-Reid have found that more Canadians would like to sit down and have a burger with Stephen Harper than any other federal political leader:

Ipsos asked 1,000 Canadians “Which of the following would you be most likely to invite to have a burger with you?”. And here are the results:

1. Stephen Harper – 35 per cent
2. Jack Layton – 23 per cent
3. Elizabeth May – 17 per cent
4. Stephane Dion – 16 per cent
5. Gilles Duceppe – 8 per cent

But more important, Ipsos found that 66 per cent of us will have fries with that burger; 12 per cent will have fries and a drink; while 22 per cent will have just the sandwich, thank you.

And we’d like our next burger to be pretty much the same way as the last burger. Of those surveyed, 61 per cent say they have the same toppings every time. The most popular toppings would be cheese (63 per cent), onions (37 per cent) and ketchup (36 per cent.)

The pollster says the results are accurate to within 3.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20 and was done April 13 to 17 on behalf of the Harvey’s hamburger chain.