EEL123 wrote:Indeed. Now Harper only needs to come first.CanadianEh wrote:Well we can kiss a NDP-Liberal coalition goodbye!
It does not look that way, currently the Liberals are 5% above the Conservatives with the NDP in third with 17%.
EEL123 wrote:Indeed. Now Harper only needs to come first.CanadianEh wrote:Well we can kiss a NDP-Liberal coalition goodbye!
I was merely stating that he needs to come first, not that he will come first. But looking that the way another untried Liberal leader, Brian Gallant, had a little trip up (in New Brunswick, if I recall correctly), it may not be entirely implausible that Justin Trudeau implodes in the campaign. Probably won't, but he might.CanadianEh wrote:It does not look that way, currently the Liberals are 5% above the Conservatives with the NDP in third with 17%.
EEL123 wrote:http://www.threehundredeight.com/2014/09/final-new-brunswick-projection-toss-up.html
This should be a warning to Trudeau. Brian Gallant has just blown a 20% lead and the contest is now a tossup. (Did I hear someone say "Scotland"?) And federally, of course, Trudeau has a much smaller lead to blow.
Well, I wouldn't be so euphoric yet. The New Brunswick Liberals almost lost an unloseable election (and, given that the tabulators screwed up, they may yet actually lose it) as a result of Brian Gallant's poor campaign, not because of any fault of Trudeau's (although the lead federally has been narrowing a little, I believe). I was merely pointing out that both are fairly untried leaders, and that if Gallant could go into meltdown, so could Trudeau.CanadianEh wrote:Yep Trudeau was just a fad, and his Canadian political time of reign came too early before the election. Harpers back baby!!
EEL123 wrote:Well, I wouldn't be so euphoric yet. The New Brunswick Liberals almost lost an unloseable election (and, given that the tabulators screwed up, they may yet actually lose it) as a result of Brian Gallant's poor campaign, not because of any fault of Trudeau's (although the lead federally has been narrowing a little, I believe). I was merely pointing out that both are fairly untried leaders, and that if Gallant could go into meltdown, so could Trudeau.CanadianEh wrote:Yep Trudeau was just a fad, and his Canadian political time of reign came too early before the election. Harpers back baby!!
EDIT: Apparently they have actually won. Although the Progressive Conservatives want a hand-count. Which begs to question, what's to say that human vote-counters are necessarily better than machine vote-counters? Maybe the discrepancy in the results was caused by the people stuffing up, not the machines.
I think that they'll have to hand-count it. Democracy relies on, among other things, the people's confidence in the electoral system. You can't have some newfangled machine frightening people.CanadianEh wrote:I think that a re-count should be done I prefer the old way of voting by counting the ballots, so what if it takes an extra hour!
EEL123 wrote:Given that the NPD is almost certain to lose votes and seats, do you think that Thomas Mulcair will get the axe? And if he does, who is best placed to replace him?
Why would you elect someone to become your leader (and your candidate for Prime Minister, in effect) if they can't even get elected Mayor?CanadianEh wrote:If Olivia Chow looses the Toronto Mayoral Election to Conservative John Tory in a few weeks she would probably consider running she might even win
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