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| Fir3start3r |
If the Conservatives get a majority it won't be by much - they're just on that line of majority.
There's no doubt who will win, its who's going to make up the official opposition that's going to be interesting... |
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| malek |
Conservative minority with the Bloc holding the balance of power.
Dion will quit tomorow night, most probably in a couple of months.
Harper will quit at the next convention for his inability to win a majority twice.
If Layton gets less seats than the previous elections, he'll be shown the door.
And the greens? who gives a anyways, no seats because hippies will change their minds or stay home smoking pot:p |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
If the Conservatives get a majority it won't be by much - they're just on that line of majority.
There's no doubt who will win, its who's going to make up the official opposition that's going to be interesting... |
If you actually think there's still a probability of a Conservative majority then you're, clearly, high. |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
And the greens? who gives a anyways, no seats because hippies will change their minds or stay home smoking pot:p |
I am not a hippie and I have never smoked ANYTHING in my whole life. So therefore, just one reason why you dont know jack about Green Party platform. Or its supporters. |
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| malek |
Let's see how many seats they'll get.
My guess: 0.
All those polls, the idiocy of inviting May to the debates will result in nothing. People aren't that stupid to vote for green- marxist-leninist.
The previous chief of the greens was at least on the right economically speaking (and I voted for him), but this May is just a nutjob. |
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| Q5echo |
| a bunch of crickets up in this mutherfukker:wtf: |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
If you actually think there's still a probability of a Conservative majority then you're, clearly, high. |
Not as high as you might have thought - only 12 seats off from a majority... ;)
Woot! :D |
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| hardcore trancer |
| Thank in god it is another minority government and not a Conservative majority.:nervous: |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
The loss of 16 liberal seats is pretty heavy though. Here the place I live the vote was less than 100 votes between the liberal incumbent and the to be winner conservative... I have no doubts that the 5 or so leftist parties running here split the vote and let the conservatives take the riding. This likely repeated itself in many places. Fact is if you add the total of centre left majority vs the cons Canada is a more left wing country... populous wise
Weirder yet at 58% of the population the goverment has a popular backing of only about 22% of the voting age population. or perhaps 17.5% of the overall population.
The party system is clearly a failure of democracy. |
We live in the same riding!
I have to disagree with you on the first past the post parliamentary system being considered a failure. You claim that the vote on one side of the spectrum being split and low voter turn-out is a failing; however, it is simply democracy in action. People are free to form parties and support them... if one side of the political spectrum is so fractured that there happen to be a number of parties occupying it and each has a basis of support then that has happened because those persons cannot put their differences aside; that is their choice... they are exercising their choice. The same true of the right wing now except only one of the right wing parties has any real basis of support; however, the Libertarians, Canadian Action Party, Christian Heritage Party, Conservative Party of Canada, are all right wing parties. Furthermore, if people choose not to vote then they have also exercised their democratic right. I'd say the system is working just fine. People only bitch about the system when the results don't go their way; however, the results are always a direct result of the choices people make, thus, the system has worked exactly as it is supposed to. |
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| Dj Smitty20 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
a bunch of crickets up in this mutherfukker:wtf: |
what the is that supposed to mean? |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
Let's see how many seats they'll get.
My guess: 0.
All those polls, the idiocy of inviting May to the debates will result in nothing. People aren't that stupid to vote for green- marxist-leninist.
The previous chief of the greens was at least on the right economically speaking (and I voted for him), but this May is just a nutjob. |
I vote for what I believe in. I dont care about the wasted vote mentality, because you're definitely full of it. According to your sentiment, we should all just vote for the Conservatives because the polls said so even before the elections and they are very accurate as usual, right? The other parties are doomed, so whats even the point of getting your fat ass out of your chair and going to vote, right?
There's more at stake here, for Christ's sake. NDP hasnt won jack in God knows how long and they werent even long shots to win these elections but people still voted for them. And they got some seats. Same with the Bloc. So what? Wasted vote mentality, my friend, is weak.
But as matter of a fact, the minority government is here because enough people voted for OTHER parties (other than Liberals) to deny Cons their throne. Makes more sense now? |
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