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Canadian General Election (OT) - #elxn42: October 19, 2015

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TUSR

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23qwerty

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I personally believe strategic voting is anti democratic. Vote for who you want. Plus those sites have information that is questionable or false.

Yes the system we got is shit, but I still don't support it.

In a system where total votes matters sure, but in this system it makes sense. Problem is it has the potential to completely backfire in certain situations like it did in my riding.
 

GG-Duo

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Vancouver Granville (6 of 206)
Con 39.8%
Lib 38.7%
NDP 19.4%
Grn 2.3%

Thanks Leadnow / Votetogether.

EDIT: 14 polls now and Jody Wilson-Raybould (LIb) in the lead... *bites nails*

Totally regret that I supported these guys in the past. This NDP endorsement was just so stinky.
 
So Kenney, Harper and Rempel remain.
Any other major Cons left?
I'm sad to see Peggy Nash and Meghan Leslie go. Maybe the left wing of the NDP will take a bigger role going forward, because this center move has stalled

Poilievre. Leitch, I think. Bernier. Not many of their stalwarts, that's for sure.

As for the NDP, it's now all on Nathan Cullen and Niki Ashton. Not sure who else they have left. Boulerice?
 

Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
North Vancouver confirmed red, Andrew Saxton went from nearly 60% support to 27%, libs elected with 56%

wow
 
People are crediting Trudeau for this win, but they should be crediting Harper.

Once he brought support down for the NDP in Quebec by bringing up the niqab, that signaled to the rest of the country that they needed to Liberal to defeat him.

This flexible set up that we have between the NDP and Liberals should always be cherished and one side should realize that they can attain power because of the other. One of them will take the fall so that the other can succeed.
 

Tik-Tok

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Do you ever get the impression that politics in Canada are just an old boys club of people with less than strict values and ideals and just trying to swim around in politics as long as possible?
Like I feel like shit is just a game for a lot of them.
 

BorkBork

The Legend of BorkBork: BorkBorkity Borking
Vancouver Granville (6 of 206)
Con 39.8%
Lib 38.7%
NDP 19.4%
Grn 2.3%

Thanks Leadnow / Votetogether.

EDIT: 14 polls now and Jody Wilson-Raybould (LIb) in the lead... *bites nails*

Way closer than it should be... Argh.
 

Azih

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Alright I can't crunch an more numbers so my website probably won't update until next week sometime (hopefully there's a sane way to get the results by then.)

Gratz to the Liberal party, this election was all about who wasn't Harper and with the no deficit talk Mulcair willingly ceded that title to Trudeau.

Only tidbit I can leave you with is that if the EXTREME left had united in St.John's then the NDP candidate would have managed to squeak by the Liberal.

Communist Sean Burton 139 0.3 %

NDP-New Democratic Party Jack Harris 20,113 45.3 %

Green Party David Anthony Peters 490 1.1 %

Conservative Deanne Stapleton 2,902 6.5 %

Liberal Nick Whalen 20,771 46.8 %


Commie-Hippie-Socialist vote splitting is REAL.

I really really hope Craig Scott manages to make it back in though it's not looking likely. We'll see.
 

Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
Mulcair is a terrible public speaker, NDP can blame him. They had the chance to establish themselves as the primary non-Harper party, but they fucked that up
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Yep, I can't watch this speech. I'm done for the night.

I'm sure I'll be less salty tomorrow, but I wish my NDP membership was a physical card so I could rip it up right now.
 

UberTag

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Do you ever get the impression that politics in Canada are just an old boys club of people with less than strict values and ideals and just trying to swim around in politics as long as possible?
Like I feel like shit is just a game for a lot of them.
I can't imagine why you would feel this way after listening to Bob Rae crack jokes for the past 15 minutes.
 
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