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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
WHAT?! clear choice of the majority of canadians?
Using this logic there are a number of combinations that would add up to being the 'clear choice' of the majority of canadians:
CPC + NDP
CPC + Liberal
CPC + Bloc
CPC + NDP + Liberal
CPC + Liberal + Bloc
CPC + Liberal + Bloc + NDP
NDP + Liberal + Bloc
You claim that the last one is the clear choice of the majority... why? All you did was add up some votes for different parties.
Wouldn't the 'clear choice' of the majority at least involve the party that won the most seats and got the highest % of the popular vote? Yet you chose the only option on the list that didn't included that party.
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Well, I know you're raising a bit of a straw man here--but my response is, sure, why not? The Conservatives ought in particular to have been able to reach out to the Liberals in order to create a stronger coalition, or an effective governing majority. Why didn't they do that? Now the only party that can support them with sufficient political cover are the Bloc. Harper should have got his Master's degree in "Not pissing away his advantage."