The Shrine

Essentially, if you're young you vote for one of the Liberal parties (NDP or Green), if you're old you vote for one of the Conservative parties (Liberals or Conservatives). Sure the NDP and Green won't win, but it is always good to show increasing support; neither of the other parties are much better than the other.

Unfortunately, it's boiling down to voting for the Liberals or against them (for the PCs). Voting for Green or NDP is almost like voting for the Conservatives since they're the only two who really have a chance.

I would prefer that the NDPs and Greens gain more ground this election and have a possibility of winning - even a minority - in the near future

I don't personally care who wins between the Liberals or Conservatives. I am voting NDP to help represent the growing support. The Liberals will be guaranteed to sweep my province. The more support NDP gains, the greater the confidence will be for them in the next election. Twenty years down the road, you don't know what may happen. Conservative supporters are generally not under the age of 45; in 20 years that number will be 65.

We still have a minority government. Conservatives. The NDP have gained a lot of ground though.

Matrix wrote:We still have a minority government. Conservatives. The NDP have gained a lot of ground though.

Yeah, thanks to Toronto. Otherwise Harper would have a majority right now

my province is entirely conservative with the exception of a single liberal riding (former finance minister Ralph Goodale). You'd think maybe the province that created the CCF (now the NDP) would vote one of their own in.

bovine wrote:my province is entirely conservative with the exception of a single liberal riding (former finance minister Ralph Goodale). You'd think maybe the province that created the CCF (now the NDP) would vote one of their own in.

Aren't the western provinces simply voting anti-Toronto? :-)

good economies bring a right wing vote. Since Alberta and Saskatchewan are seeing better times (alberta is just sort of great oil revenues as per usual) we want a party that is less about equalization since that way we can keep more of our money.

Ah, k.

Well, don't forget that the hicks always vote right wing. Look at the US LMAO

bovine wrote:good economies bring a right wing vote. Since Alberta and Saskatchewan are seeing better times (alberta is just sort of great oil revenues as per usual) we want a party that is less about equalization since that way we can keep more of our money.

Heh, so you're saying you're in a good economy? The US is in the shitter, so the rest of the world follows.

Zeus wrote:Ah, k.

Well, don't forget that the hicks always vote right wing. Look at the US LMAO

You can have Jesusland for all I care, including the people in my state.

SineSwiper wrote:

bovine wrote:good economies bring a right wing vote. Since Alberta and Saskatchewan are seeing better times (alberta is just sort of great oil revenues as per usual) we want a party that is less about equalization since that way we can keep more of our money.

Heh, so you're saying you're in a good economy? The US is in the shitter, so the rest of the world follows.

That's why the conservatives called the election when they did. If they called it a month earlier they would have had a majority, but since everyone is freaking out about this recession, they lost a ton of ridings that they would have won a month ago. Also, it was called when it was before Obama wins in your United States and in fear that that leftesque wing fever would spread to up here.

SineSwiper wrote:

Zeus wrote:Ah, k.

Well, don't forget that the hicks always vote right wing. Look at the US LMAO

You can have Jesusland for all I care, including the people in my state.

Our Jesusland is just as conservative as yours. There's just far less of them up here.

The irritating part is the Conservatives won and additional 6 seats in Ontario, including both in my cities. Fucking Dion. When will the Liberals figure out that just because a guy is French-Canadian don't mean he's automatically better? Cretchien was different, so was Trudeau. Don't let what happened to Martin skew their perception of the populace's expectations.

The Liberals won by a landslide in my area, but we lost one of the 4 ridings in our province to the Conservatives. The Western riding of the province (hickish bumpkins with funny sounding accents, where the tallest man is probably no where above 5 foot 5) voted Conservative. Despite being a tiny province, we have areas with HUGE differences in culture.

I thought you automatically hated French-Canadians? Where's all the Quebec hate?

SineSwiper wrote:I thought you automatically hated French-Canadians? Where's all the Quebec hate?

They're a lost cause. The only reason the Bloc gets anything.

SineSwiper wrote:I thought you automatically hated French-Canadians? Where's all the Quebec hate?

The Bloc are a lesser form of "evil" (actually, not really evil at all, I can understand their position, and their policies are fairly good) than people who want to associate themselves with the war mongering and environmentally destructive Bush party down south.