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Originally Posted by evman150
Harper, a man who can "barely speak a word of" french, sure did well for himself in Quebec this year. Dion will be fine in that regard. This is a country that elected three Jean Chretien majorities. Canadians tend to look past a little language difficulty.
In the 1993, 1997, and 2000 the Liberals won ~100/103 seats in Ontario. This year they won 54. To me that seems like a lot of ridings that look for an excuse to vote liberal. With the party back on track, I don't see why at least half of those ridings wouldn't revert to their regular voting pattern.
Also, 2006 was a disaster in Quebec. It really can only get better.
And I'll be doing my part in my riding to get the Liberals in here. Stupid NDP!
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Chretien was never publically as federal as Dion, not even close in fact. To say it will only get better in Quebec is a cop out. Why would it get better? Quebec voters want to see a Liberal that is going to recognize them as a individual sect, where as Dion looks to unify the country without giving Quebec anything but provincial status. And like I said before the fact Dion was a party member and MP in the province during the sponsoship scandal will not help him.
You reference past elections in Ontario like Chetien didnt deserve his votes. I didnt like the guy, but he was and is very charismartic and very progressive, he deserved the votes he won in Ontario, there is no evidence Dion will or should garner similar support.
As for why they wouldnt revert back to their old voting pattern. First of all, all of those votes your quoted were before the united Conerservative party, which basically makes all of them a moot point in this discussion. The Ontario voters never wanted to vote Reform or Alliance, but have shown throughout history they will vote Torrie. And on top of that, despite you views Hatper has done a good job. He has followed though on campiagn promises and has not ****ed off many voters. I can see no reason at all the Ontario voting patterns would revert to pre united Conservatives.