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Originally Posted by Slava
If you can't figure out that my saying the Wildrose would re-launch the egg in the frying pan commercials again was a joke, then I'm not sure where to begin.
I definitely have my biases, and I think that everyone does. I don't try to imply that I'm totally neutral. The difference is that when I say/said in an election thread that I don't know who I'm voting for, you take that as me saying that I'm an objective observer of some sort, which I'm clearly not. I do think that I can like some policies and ideas from parties/politicians and not jump into bed with them though.
I have no idea where the weed issue leaves Trudeau in the polls. If you want to know, I really don't care about marijuana laws one way or the other. I've never tried it and have no intentions of doing so, so it makes no difference to me one way or the other. What I do find funny is that the usual suspects here who are anti-Trudeau, yet love the idea of more referendums and public involvement in general are criticizing him for going along with what the majority of people seem to favour. Does this position actually get Trudeau any votes? Maybe, but its certainly not likely to be a tipping point type of issue. I doubt we see the next election fought on marijuana laws. What it does though is paint a picture of someone being much more liberal regarding these issues than his opposition. To me the really interesting party here is the NDP. What will they say? They can't every well just agree with the Harper position, and at the same time to come out and support Trudeau isn't likely a great political move either.
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Thanks for the pointed response and the bolded part is certainly an interesting dichotomy. I also agree that weed wont be a huge issue either way in the election.
Forgetting for now that they are polling about 13 points higher than the Libs country wide the last i saw (before summer IIRC)....do they have the cache with voters to align closely with Liberal platforms and not lose votes to the more center party?
There is almost no reason that the Harper conservatives shouldnt be defeated in the next election to some degree by either the Libs or the Dips...but it seems as if they will be each others biggest stumbling block to do so. Its very odd.