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Originally Posted by Slava
That whole idea just mystifies me in general. I've always heard that you don't pick a winter election or whatever because it makes the voters upset and they could take you down (as a governing party who gets to choose)...but I wonder if that is mostly antiquated thinking.
Today with cars and such do voters really vote against incumbents because of that sort of thing? I doubt it. I also find it funny that with the minimal effort of marking an "X" every few years that voters would really care....frankly they just might not show up - that seems to be the case more and more anyway.
I do agree with the not liking the platforms. I don't care for the Liberal platform, won't be voting NDP and the Greens are even further off my radar. The more I see of the CPC campaign though, the more I realise that they are really undeserving of another term. They are far from the financial stewards that they profess to be, and riddled with questionable ethics (if not something worse). I can't see myself voting for that either.
I am thinking of writing my name in, drawing a box and checking said box. At least I would agree with the guy I was voting for!
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I think that the backlash is around 4 elections in 7 years, with this one kind of being the straw that breaks the camels back. And I agree with some people that have said that Ignatieff has had a surprisingly decent campaign but the bar was set low.
I don't think that any of the campaigns have been awe inspiring at all. And the cynic in me is tired of seeing mass impossible election promises.
I look at the Liberal Campaign and I see vote buying.
I look at the NDP campaign and see the usual stuff.
I'm ok with the conservative platform as its more realistic then the other two major parties.
But I am shocked at how poorly Harper has been campaigning, he learned some key lessons in the last election, but seems to have forgotten the rest.
I would think that we're quibbling about whether a majority is possible, other wise the size of the minority. The only way I think that Ignatieff can close the gap quickly enough is by doing a Mulroney Turner knockout, but I think that Harper will be too well prepared for that.
The cynic is me also thinks that within days of the election that Ignatieff and the NDP will try to take over parliment, the trust level isn't there for me, and then we'll be back to the polls by the fall.