2011 Canada: The Poll

[Napoleon]

I'm voting Liberal. I hope there won't be too many fools voting NDP or Green in Orleans to allow the retard Purgatory MP to win again.

Of course, if I actually could vote in a Canadian constituency I'd vote for the best placed non-Tory candidate.

FPP is an atrocious voting system.

Yeah, ftr, I'd vote NDP or Bloc if they were best placed against the Purgatory. People who vote Liberal in, say, Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar are as foolish and stupid as those who vote NDP in Orleans.

Even if one does not support the policies of those parties? Of course its different since Harper will still have the most seats but that won't always be true.

[Holmes]

NDP. Helps that my MP is a great guy. I'd only vote Liberal if the NDP candidate was horrible, and Green only if NDP or Liberal were bad. I know a lot of people strategically vote, but I'd rather vote for someone than against someone.

[Hash]

I'm certainly voting Liberal, but by now it's entirely strategic and because I like the candidate. I'd vote NDP in all races except marginal Tory/Liberal; and I'd probably vote NDP under any other electoral system.

Also, the NDP candidate in Orleans is some 22-year old Haitian student or something who I gather barely has a campaign organization.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

NDP. In the past I would've voted Liberal in Quebec but that doesn't look needed this year.

CHP.

Idk, didn't they endorse 'stimulus' and all sorts of other bad ideas? Of course glancing at Wiki they sound perfectly reasonable if a bit moderate for my tastes.

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lol OK jmfcst

[Franzl]

Not that it matters....but I think I'm changing my endorsement from Liberal to NDP. Give em a chance.

I wouldn't be a supporter under normal circumstances, but Layton would be a much better official opposition than anyone in the Liberals apparently can.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They're a generic centrist party. There's nothing remotely offensive about them at all.

They're also a party of mild, moderate civic nationalism. Which is why Iggy was such a poor choice of leader.

[Nhoj]

At this point NDP, Usually Liberals I would imagine, except in say Saskatchewan where I would be a NDP voter most of the time.

[Person Man]

It would be interesting to see an arguably socialist government under the NDP but how much more Harper could Canada take? I'd go with Liberal...

[Hash]

The only people who still call the NDP 'socialists' are Tory hacks.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The only people who still call the NDP 'socialists' are Tory hacks.

In fairness they are socialists (albeit of an utterly and increasingly moderate stripe; Layton is running on a noticeably less radical platform than Tony Blair did in 1997 ffs), but, yeah. It's sort of like how right-wing newspapers (notably the Torygraph, but also quite a few local newspapers) never referred to the Labour Party by its actual name if they could help it, generally using 'the Socialists' instead. Even when recording election results (i.e. 'Barnsley - Soc. hold'). That lasted well into the 1970s with some local papers. Apparently Tory activists still mark Labour voters with an 'S' on their canvassing sheets, though that might just be an urban myth (I wouldn't know).

[Hash]

My friend's family is ultra-right, so they call the NDP socialists and fearmonger about ultra-high taxes, bankruptcy, evil coalitions, separatists and other fun things.

It's kind of amusing. They also tend to never talk about their side (Harpo) but always talk about the evilness of the other side.

[minionofmidas]

The only people who still call the NDP 'socialists' are Tory hacks.

In fairness they are socialists (albeit of an utterly and increasingly moderate stripe; Layton is running on a noticeably less radical platform than Tony Blair did in 1997 ffs), but, yeah. It's sort of like how right-wing newspapers (notably the Torygraph, but also ) never referred to the Labour Party by its actual name if they could help it, generally using 'the Socialists' instead. Even when recording election results (i.e. 'Barnsley - Soc. hold'). That lasted well into the 1970s with some local papers. Apparently Tory activists still mark Labour voters with an 'S' on their canvassing sheets, though that might just be an urban myth (I wouldn't know).

It would make sense - "L" was presumably taken.

[tpfkaw]

It's kind of amusing. They also tend to never talk about their side (Harpo) but always talk about the evilness of the other side.

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[Person Man]

The only people who still call the NDP 'socialists' are Tory hacks.

In fairness they are socialists (albeit of an utterly and increasingly moderate stripe; Layton is running on a noticeably less radical platform than Tony Blair did in 1997 ffs), but, yeah. It's sort of like how right-wing newspapers (notably the Torygraph, but also ) never referred to the Labour Party by its actual name if they could help it, generally using 'the Socialists' instead. Even when recording election results (i.e. 'Barnsley - Soc. hold'). That lasted well into the 1970s with some local papers. Apparently Tory activists still mark Labour voters with an 'S' on their canvassing sheets, though that might just be an urban myth (I wouldn't know).

Well, if you say they are, then I guess they are.

[minionofmidas]

to quote the Toronto Star quoting an unnamed advisor to Toronto mayor Rob Ford, "the unholy socialist coalition of Layton and Bob Rae".

[Holmes]

Can we at least just pretend Rob Ford and his ilk don't exist?

[Bacon King]

I'd vote NDP unless I needed to vote Liberal or Bloc strategically against the Tories. I'd consider voting Green if I lived in Saanich - Gulf Islands.

[FalselyImperturbable]

Most likely the NDP or Greens.

[CatoMinor]

They also tend to never talk about their side (Harpo) but always talk about the evilness of the other side.

lol.....

And as for the poll, The Bloc

[Antonio the Sixth]

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lol.....

You guys have really bright and insightful arguments.

[Wisconsin+17]

I suppose it makes me an ultra right winger to say that both the Conservatives and the NDP are socialist.

The NDP is communist as well as socialist. Both parties believe in spending public money to further the growth of the state.

I don't know how long it's been since we've have a party that *isn't* socialist. Mulroney's was full on. Maybe Bennett?

[Antonio the Sixth]

I suppose it makes me an ultra right winger to say that both the Conservatives and the NDP are socialist.

It just makes you an idiot. But you seem to be happy that way, so I don't see any need to change this.

[JewCon]

Conservative Party

[Bacon King]

Conservatives ... are socialist.

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Do you even know what those words mean?

[CatoMinor]

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lol.....

You guys have really bright and insightful arguments.

I wasn't arguing anything, just saying in my post I supported the Bloc, and happened to find Hash's post hilarious considering he himself does what he was criticizing others in his post.

However if you want to hold my post to a higher standard than others who also simply posted who they supported in the poll, okey dokey.
I support the Bloc becuase I support Quebec sovereignty which the other major parties do not, to my knowledge, and they also helped keep Harper from forming a majority in the past. Happy now?