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Originally Posted by peter12
I've been talking about this over with my colleagues at work. I wonder if given a choice between being the junior partner in an NDP/Bloc coalition and the junior partner with the Conservatives, the Libs might just swallow 20 years of rhetoric and posturing.
Both parties are really substantially centre-right, and would actually have common ground on virtually everything. The vast breadth of the Liberal base that remains would never, ever go over to the NDP.
I don't want to jump the gun here, but we might be seeing a very substantial realignment of Canadian democracy here.
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I agree...and it still could be jumping the gun. It is interesting though!
It puts voters like me and a lot of centrists in the political wilderness if it happens. It means that the NDP/Lib would be pretty far left and then a huge gap (where I actually think most voters are) then the CPC.
I'm torn on whether the support for the NDP holds; one would expect it to drop come Monday by 5-7% at least. Then again every news channel leads with the NDP surge and how great Jack Layton is doing....that is pretty powerful in terms of convincing the undecideds I would think?