General Chat

Now I didn't say it wasn't better to vote for a dead pig than to vote for any Conservative candidate in any riding! Dosangh, any Liberal, any NDPer, anybody the Bloc is running, anybody who appears to have the best chance of defeating any Conservative candidate.

I'd vote Liberal if I lived in a Liberal or Liberal-leaning riding with no NDP hope. I'd hold my nose and take Gravol, but I'd do it. I voted PC to vote against Trudeau in the early 70s, after working on the NDP campaign but knowing the riding was not going NDP. I would simply have no illusions about what I was doing, particularly if my local Liberal candidate were an opportunist turncoat. ;)

The issue is not whether the NDP is going to form the next government. The issue is twofold: (a) whether the Liberals will scare people into voting Liberal in ridings where there is a viable NDP candidate they would otherwise vote for (as they did in 88) (and possibly split the vote and enable the Conservative to win, a real possibility in some ridings), and (b) that a Liberal minority government with as many NDP seats as possible is the best available option for the country given that the NDP is unlikely to win enough seats to form a government. Although even the ghastly Andrew Coyne and whatsername on the CBC last night were talking about the NDP becoming the main threat to the Conservatives after the debates.

The 68 federal election was the first one I worked on. So ... I guess we tie. ;)

lol!


no way will I bite your head off, C


it often comes down to the strategic vote


or who is the best of a bad lot, and not a Tory .... at least with this government


Although having said that, we had another super riding man many years ago ........ John Fraser, a Tory!



and I think that is where I often base my choice ... who is the best person for the riding.



sylvia

Janey


I first worked on an election in 1964 in England, but arrived in Canada just a couple of months after Trudeau was elected.

Here you go, Canuckistanians.

http://www.projectdemocracy.ca

Insert postal code, get wholly unbiased recommendation about who best to vote for to defeat the local Harper candidate.

Remember, we elect *locally*. National polls say nothing about local contests.

If you want the Liberals to beat the Conservatives *but the strongest anti-Conservative candidate locally is the NDP* then you don't vote Liberal. And vice versa.

My riding is considered a safe NDP riding, so it recommends I vote my conscience, since there is little danger of splitting the anti-Conservative vote in a way that would allow the Conservative to win.

I always vote my conscience! I'm just very glad it isn't telling me I have to vote Liberal. ;)