Nova Scotia Election, 2013

[DC Al Fine]

Took a drive around Clayton Park West tonight. Found exactly one non-Liberal sign on private property in the entire bleeping riding. I suspect Whalen will be re-elected in a landslide. At least the one sign was one of ours.

[RogueBeaver]

Trudeau will be stumping with McNeil tomorrow.

[Citizen Hats]

Timberlea-Prospect
This riding consists of two communities; Timberlea, a working class suburb, and Prospect, a poor rural area with a few large oceanfront properties. It has been represented by NDP MLA Bill Estabrooks. Estabrooks is a colourful character and is known for being down to earth. During the MLA spending scandal, it came out that Estabrooks claimed a mere $300 for constituency expenses and bought most of his office furniture on Kijiji!(Canadian version of Craigslist). The riding should be safe NDP but has two wildcards. Estabrooks will not run again, so the NDP will loose his rather large personal vote, and the Tories are running Bruce Pretty who nearly won Halifax West and got a large personal vote in the normally Tory unfriendly Prospect area. I'm still calling it safe NDP, but it could be surprisingly close on election night.
Safe NDP

I happen to be working in Timberlea-Prospect, and I would estimate that the Estabrooks personal vote is a very large share of the vote

[Hatman 🍁]

Are you working on a campaign? And for whom?

[Citizen Hats]

The Liberals, of course

[Citizen Hats]

I heard anonymous is attacking the NDP for making fake Twitter accounts.

That's what I've heard too- that they use hootesuite to schedule and generate a huge volume of tweets such that they drown out everyone else for their followers. 

Also interesting enough is that all of their campaign videos on youtube have nearly the exact same number of views...

What kind of sensible campaign dedicates so much time to such fluff?

[DC Al Fine]

Trudeau is in NS today. He's campaigning mostly in strong NDP seats like Halifax Atlantic. Apparently they think they're going to win big.

[DC Al Fine]

Greens have 7 candidates now, 3 in the Valley and 4 in Halifax.

Atlantica has nominated their leader, but I have no idea about their other candidates since they're all independents.

[Hatman 🍁]

Apparently the CRA has begun doing daily poll tracking.

Not very much change, but the Liberals continue to lead by 20 points:

Lib: 49
ND: 29
PC: 21
Grn: 2

[Hatman 🍁]

Punched these numbers into my spreadsheet (change from  my blog post):

Lib: 30 (+2)
NDP: 14 (+1)
PC 7 (-3)

NDP gains Eastern Shore from PC
Libs gain Northside-Westmount and Kings North from PC

[DC Al Fine]

Retiring Halifax Atlantic MLA Michele Raymond showed up at a Trudeau rally in her riding. She's not endorsing anyone, but that is a bit strange.

[Hatman 🍁]

Today was nomination day. Greens were only able to find 14 candidates. Yikes. I guess that's good news for the NDP.

[Hatman 🍁]

Today's tracking numbers:

Liberal: 49 (n/c)
NDP: 29 (n/c)
PC: 20 (-1)
Green: 2 (n/c)

[DC Al Fine]

Debate tonight. 5:30pm Atlantic time.

[Hatman 🍁]

Shucks, I'm going to have to miss it.  Going to the "the Wiggles" in concert with my daughter and my mother

[DC Al Fine]

Shucks, I'm going to have to miss it.  Going to the "the Wiggles" in concert with my daughter and my mother

What an awesome excuse

On another note Trevor Zinck is NOT running again. Should help the NDP in Dartmouth North.

[DC Al Fine]

McNeil attacks the NDP 3 times and the Tories once in his opening statement

[Hatman 🍁]

Just realized you said *5:30*. What a ridiculously early time for a debate. Is there a hockey game on or something?

[DC Al Fine]

McNeil attacking like he's the one down 10%. Baillie getting shut out.

[Hatman 🍁]

I'm trying to access the debate on CBC from work. Having problems, as CBC's live streaming is awful. I'll only get to watch 15 minutes anyways.

[DC Al Fine]

Just realized you said *5:30*. What a ridiculously early time for a debate. Is there a hockey game on or something?

Presumably because CBC Halifax doesn't have the resources to run a TV debate & the evening news

[Hatman 🍁]

When's the evening news? 7? That's a bit late for evening news.

[DC Al Fine]

When's the evening news? 7? That's a bit late for evening news.

No, I mean they're holding a debate instead of the evening news. The local anchors are moderating the debate.

[Hatman 🍁]

OIC

Well, the live streaming isn't working. My tax dollars at work. Thank you, CBC

I'll save my self a lot of trouble and just say "Dexter won"

[DC Al Fine]

Dexter and McNeil sparring over apprenticship

OIC

Well, the live streaming isn't working. My tax dollars at work. Thank you, CBC

I'll save my self a lot of trouble and just say "Dexter won"

McNeil is losing, let's put it that way.