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Originally Posted by Jacks 
I always laugh when I hear Liberals complain that "The Tories came in on the white horse of accountability and promised that things will be better." "now they are just as bad as us so you should kick them out and vote us back in". Most politicians are scumbags, you need to pick the one who's policy you most agree with and hope for the best.
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Originally Posted by SebC
If Canadians had done that, Stephen Harper would've never been PM.
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In fact, I think thats exactly what Canadians did. I doubt that everyone that voted CPC agreed 100% with their election platform, but I suggest that the majority of Canadians (and by majority, I mean enough Canadians to elect the CPC as a majority government) liked the CPC platform more than those of the other parties.
IMO, in most cases this was not an anti-Liberal vote/election (as far as the CPC vote is concerned) where people were willing to vote for the CPC just to get rid of the Liberals. I would suggest that the majority of people who voted CPC were pro CPC as opposed to anti-Liberal. The same however, may not be said, IMO, for the NDP vote, or at least the NDP vote in Quebec.