What party would you vote for in Canada?

[Hatman 🍁]

WMS, you'd probably vote Liberal

[Filuwaúrdjan]

WMS, you'd probably vote Liberal

Nah, you should see what he thinks about Tammany Hall types

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

[Hatman 🍁]

WMS, you'd probably vote Liberal

Nah, you should see what he thinks about Tammany Hall types

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

How about the BQ then?

[Jake]

Paleocons are people like Buchannan while neo cons are like most of the Bush administration (Rumsfeld, Ashcroft)

Ashcroft isn't a neo-con.

[© tweed]

Liberals

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

WMS, you'd probably vote Liberal

Nah, you should see what he thinks about Tammany Hall types

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

How about the BQ then?

He has a tendency to dislike seperatists, well, except Somaliland.

Actually I could see him voting NDP in the prairies. In the urban areas, well he wouldn't be too happy...

[Hatman 🍁]

WMS, you'd probably vote Liberal

Nah, you should see what he thinks about Tammany Hall types

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

How about the BQ then?

He has a tendency to dislike seperatists, well, except Somaliland.

Actually I could see him voting NDP in the prairies. In the urban areas, well he wouldn't be too happy...

Yeah. NDP for a major party preference. Maybe the Progressive Canadians if he wanted to go for a minor party.

[Max Power]

The upcoming election, unfortunately, is this:





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[Hatman 🍁]

Casey, there much more embarassing pictures of Layton than that. Wheres the pic of him at the gay pride parade?

[Max Power]

Casey, there much more embarassing pictures of Layton than that. Wheres the pic of him at the gay pride parade?

I'll "dig it up" tomorrow. But the caption is what I found funny in that pic.

[Hatman 🍁]

Casey, there much more embarassing pictures of Layton than that. Wheres the pic of him at the gay pride parade?

I'll "dig it up" tomorrow. But the caption is what I found funny in that pic.

Hahaha. What was Layton doing in Calgary anyways? You can't get any more Conservative for a city anyways.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Brings back a lot of memories

[minionofmidas]

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

Yeah, a Conservative-NDP swing voter ... then again, these aren't as uncommon as you might think in Canada ... really, "a swing voter from hell" is just another word for a "Canadian".

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, a Conservative-NDP swing voter ... then again, these aren't as uncommon as you might think in Canada ...

You've just described the largest part of the Saskatchewan electorate

I've worked out what his nightmare riding would be, btw. Vancouver Centre. Hedy Fry (who must come close to being his nightmare Liberal) against Svend Robinson (and whether he's heard of him or not, he is his nightmare Dipper).

[Democratic Hawk]

Whatever happend to the Reform Party?

Dave

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Whatever happend to the Reform Party?

Dave

They became the United Alternative Convention, which created the Canadian Alliance, which "merged" to become the Conservative Party of Canada.

[afleitch]

I'm a little undecided. The Conservatives seem too socially conservative for my liking if I have read into them correctly recently, but i would probably be sick of the Liberals if I lived in Canada (I generally dislike governments that are in power for too long)

[WMS]

Well, this thread went off on an amusing tangent.

WMS, you'd probably vote Liberal

Nah, you should see what he thinks about Tammany Hall types

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

Let's just say I don't like Tammany Hall types. At All.

And Al, that's currently in the running for 'most likely' option.

How about the BQ then?

He has a tendency to dislike seperatists, well, except Somaliland.

Actually I could see him voting NDP in the prairies. In the urban areas, well he wouldn't be too happy...

NOT the BQ.

It depends on what type of separatists they are. I backed the East Timor secession for example, and initially backed the Eritreans as well (before they turned into a bunch of totalitarian nuts ). It depends on why the secession is happening and how everyone involved is acting. Example: Upon de facto independence, Somaliland worked to stabilize its economy and politics, eventually holding multiple rounds of elections with much participation by everyone. Upon de facto independence, Ichkeria (Chechnya) splintered into competing packs of warlords, engaged in massive drug and human trafficking, and tried to invade half of their neighbors. Somaliland = Good. Ichkeria = Bad.

Prairie NDP...maybe. I have been reading what Al and others have said about them, and that's a possibility. Urban NDP...doesn't sound like it. Yes, BRTD, the urban areas of Canada are Not My Friends Politically.

Yeah. NDP for a major party preference. Maybe the Progressive Canadians if he wanted to go for a minor party.

Depends, as I said above. Who are the Progressive Canadians?

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

Yeah, a Conservative-NDP swing voter ... then again, these aren't as uncommon as you might think in Canada ... really, "a swing voter from hell" is just another word for a "Canadian".

Actually, Lewis just took the lead. Conservative-NDP Swing Voter is a real possibility were I a Canadian voter. And I didn't know Canadian voters were so varied...or so volatile!

Yeah, a Conservative-NDP swing voter ... then again, these aren't as uncommon as you might think in Canada ...

You've just described the largest part of the Saskatchewan electorate

I've worked out what his nightmare riding would be, btw. Vancouver Centre. Hedy Fry (who must come close to being his nightmare Liberal) against Svend Robinson (and whether he's heard of him or not, he is his nightmare Dipper).

Hmm, I should probably visit Saskatchewan at least once.

Hmm, I should probably avoid Vancouver Centre like the plague.

Do you have any good details on those two, Al?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

NOT the BQ.

I. Am. Shocked.

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Winnipeg and Regina are urban Although in this context "urban" seems to mean Toronto, Vancouver et al rather than a blue collar city like Winnipeg...
The NDP in the Prairie provinces have always been more moderate than the federal party (and much more electorally sucessful, at provincial level anyway) and there's always been a strong religious element; Tommy Douglas himself was a Baptist minister.
One interesting feature of the NDP in Saskatchewan (not so much in Manitoba) is a marked fiscally conservative streak; the main reason why the federal NDP did badly there last election was the fact that the provincial government jacked up taxes to fill in a budget deficit (please compare with the approach of the B.C NDP to fiscal matters...)

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Minor party formed by ex-PC activists upset at the "merger" of the CA and PC parties.

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Do you like wheat?
Or absurdly volatile electorates?

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It's not as though you seek out Yuppy-cum-Inner City areas anyway is it?

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Yes, but it would be easier to just have a look at this site: http://www.electionprediction.org/2005_fed/index.html and read some of the entries. A lot of partisan rubbish, o/c, but some very informative postings as well.

[WMS]

I. Am. Shocked.

Did you run into an electric fence, then?

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For a given value of "urban", then. Hmm, the Prairie NDP doesn't sound bad at all. And what did the B.C. NDP do instead - cut governing costs?

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Ah, the htmldon party! Got it. Might be worth adding to my swing list.

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Wheat is OK. Absurdly volatile electorates are fun.

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I do my best to avoid them, that is true.

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I'll do that.

[Hatman 🍁]

I. Am. Shocked.

Did you run into an electric fence, then?

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For a given value of "urban", then. Hmm, the Prairie NDP doesn't sound bad at all. And what did the B.C. NDP do instead - cut governing costs?

Lots of scandals.

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Ah, the htmldon party! Got it. Might be worth adding to my swing list.

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Wheat is OK. Absurdly volatile electorates are fun.

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I do my best to avoid them, that is true.

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I'll do that.
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Hedy Fry = far left loony liberal
Svend Robinson = far left slightly less lonny New Democrat

[Cubby]

Do you see now just how conservative Harper and his crew are Hugh? They are just like Bush in 2000, seemingly moderate but actually paleo-cons in disguise.

Wait wait wait... I thought Bush was a neo-con... now we're paleo-cons?  Maybe y'all should get your ideological epithets straight.

I was calling Harper a paleo-con, since he's not a neo-con. Yes the terms get confusing but I knew what I meant. Maybe calling Harper a "moderate conservative" would be better since he's neither close to Bush Jr. or Buchanan ideologically, I think.

And Hugh you're right that other parties winning once and awhile is good for democracy. The problem is, once they win, there's no telling how long they'll last. A lot of people in 2000 thought Bush would be a 1 term president b/c the election was so flawed, yet look what happened.

[MasterJedi]

In all likelyhood the Conservatives.

[WMS]

For a given value of "urban", then. Hmm, the Prairie NDP doesn't sound bad at all. And what did the B.C. NDP do instead - cut governing costs?

Lots of scandals.

Ahh, that's never good. What were the scandals involving, anyway?

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Hedy Fry = far left loony liberal
Svend Robinson = far left slightly less lonny New Democrat


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*projectile-vomits* Not my type of place at all, then...

[jokerman]

definitly the NDP