Canadian Election Tread (part deux)

[Agathon]

Nope. It's just the end of social conservatism in Canada. The Conservatives should have based their new party around the PC party, but they didn't and they've scared off the voters with their bigoted crap.

The NDP vote is well up - must be the war.

[Ben Kenobi]

Fools speculate on incomplete evidence...

I gotta go so I'll just finish NB.

[General Ludd]

And where are those green party seats?

[Ben Kenobi]

NEW BRUNSWICK

Acadie-Bathurst

Yvon Godin NDP 23538 53.95% X
Serge Rousselle LIB 14203 32.55%
Joel E. Bernard CON 4817 11.04%
Mario Lanteigne GRN 1072 2.46%

Third NDP seat.

Beausejour

Dominic LeBlanc LIB 20960 53.44% X
Angela Vautour CON 10972 27.98%
Omer Bourque NDP 5773 14.72%
Anna Girouard GRN 1514 3.86%

Fredericton

Andy Scott LIB 19921 46.67% X
Kent Fox CON 14415 33.77%
John Carty NDP 7362 17.25%
Daron Letts GRN 991 2.32%




I gotta go. Can't wait any longer for the dls.

Tempted to stay, but no.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
Nope. It's just the end of social conservatism in Canada. The Conservatives should have based their new party around the PC party, but they didn't and they've scared off the voters with their bigoted crap.

Absolutely.

[Agathon]

Fools doubt that the liberals will win. As I said, the Liberals always win because they are the natural governing party. People out west may not like this, but it's reality.

The Reform/Conservative party is simply too bigoted for the majority of Canadians. They are never going to win anything in Quebec, and without that they are going to be in opposition, permanently.

Good on Duceppe, the Bloc is the big winner tonight.

[Ben Kenobi]

The Conservatives should have based their new party around the PC party, but they didn't and they've scared off the voters with their bigoted crap.

I don't see no Alliance party winning seven seats, and a higher percentage of the Atlantic Canada votes than the noble NDP.

Harper's safe with the West left to come!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Asher

Absolutely.

Yep - bring back Clark. I'm by no means a conservative, but he's a good man and a party made up of people like him is the only hope for Canadian conservatives.

[Ben Kenobi]

Yep - bring back Clark. I'm by no means a conservative, but he's a good man and a party made up of people like him is the only hope for Canadian conservatives.

The Conservatives already have more seats in the bag, than they ever had under Clark's regime.

[Ben Kenobi]

The Reform/Conservative party is simply too bigoted for the majority of Canadians. They are never going to win anything in Quebec, and without that they are going to be in opposition, permanently.

We shall see.

The West is yet to come, so anything can happen.

I'm very curious to see the results out here in Vancouver.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


I don't see no Alliance party winning seven seats, and a higher percentage of the Atlantic Canada votes than the noble NDP.

Harper's safe with the West left to come!

He's dead, Ben. He's had every conceivable advantage in this campaign:

1) The voters are tired of the Liberals as it's been ten years - that's natural.

2) The Liberals have been mired in scandal.

3) They ran a terrible campaign.

But the Liberals will still be the government because they are most in line with voters in Ontario. Most right wing Canadians are like Asher: they are economically conservative, but aren't bigots. There is no way they will vote for a socially conservative party. Kudos to Canada for that.

If the Tories can't win with this advantage, they will never win. Unless, of course, they completely drop the religious right and abandon US style politics. That means revitalising the PC party which Canadians trusted on social issues – "Progressive Conservative" sounded like an oxymoron, but it is the only viable form of conservatism in Canada.

[Agathon]

It's done, Ben. There aren't enough seats in the west to change the result. Liberal Minority government it is.

[St Leo]

My parents talked themselves into voting the same way as me. Weird.

[Agathon]

Not weird at all. I saw that the NDP had nearly doubled its vote share in Ontario.

Some of this is down to Layton's stance over the war. I talked to a lot of people at the protests who said they were changing from Liberal to NDP because of the party's principle stand.

[Asher]

No one I know gives a sh*t about the war, it's all about gay marriage to everyone I know...