CanPol: May(?) 2011 Election. Vote today!

[notyoueither]

Some days you just want to say ****'em all.

[Wezil]

That's just chump change from the G8 fiasco. Just wait until details of the $50B stimulus start coming out.

[notyoueither]

It isn't the cash. We already knew about the cash.

[Wezil]

Clement is holding on to the riding by his fingernails. He's just getting a little help from his friends.

Do you think this will reflect in the election results NYE?


edit - My bad. He won 2006 by 28 votes. 2008 he won handily.

[Asher]

Apparently subsequent leaked drafts paint a different picture of the G8 spending.

[Wezil]

Not the spending itself but the "misleading" part about how it was spent.

According to the Conservatives.

[notyoueither]

Do you think this will reflect in the election results NYE?

I don't know. If the initial leak was the accurate final report, then I'd say yes.

There's a lot of noise about 'scandals' that doesn't seem to be sticking much.

[Ben Kenobi]

Only reason Ben is back is the Canucks in the playoffs.

He'll be gone again in a couple weeks.

Actually, the only reason I left is because I was busy with other things.

[Asher]

You're not fooling anyone, Ben.

Must be your wildly successful tutoring business that took up all that time.

[Wezil]

Have a feeling this will go down in the coming days.

You called it.

A huge one day drop.

Voters reacted promptly and sharply Monday to revelations of possible misspending by the Conservative government during the G8 summit, sending Stephen Harper’s leadership approval into a one-day nosedive.

The Nanos Research Leadership Index – which has been tracking voter responses daily to questions about which party leader scores best on questions of trust, competence and vision – gave the Conservative Leader a score of 94 on April 11, compared to the score of 110 he posted the day before.

If we've finally reached the "tipping point" I might start believing in a god.

[notyoueither]

I'm doubting it.

That's higher than he was Mar 28th and 29th, and may have a lot to do with the earlier report.

Meanwhile, there's Ignatieff's statement about voting for Kerry.

[Wezil]

You are presuming it won't drop further.

I repeat, that is a huge one day drop.

[notyoueither]

It sure is, just a bit larger than some of his one day gains. So, we'll see.

Good move by the Liberals as a tactic. I'm thinking they feel Ignatieff can sucker-punch Harper in the debate tonight and keep the momentum building. I don't think we need three guesses as to the party affiliation of the opposition supporter of the first leak.

I still feel inclined to say ****'em all; the parties, the media, the civil service. *******.'EM ALL.

[Asher]

Don't vote. It just gives them money to buy more annoying ads.

[notyoueither]

Better yet to cast a spolied ballot. Tell them you are voting but that you are not impressed with anything on offer.

They pay attention to the people who take the ten minutes to give an opinion. The people who can't be bothered not so much.