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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I'm not categorizing the voters that way. I'm categorizing the parties that way. The point is the parties are positioned where they are and the CPC has to look to where it can gain votes. It's not to the right.
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No, that is not how the conversation went. Locke said:
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Originally Posted by Locke
Remember the days when there were promises of Electoral Reform? We were going to get rid of 'First Past the Post' and the party that got the most votes would win.
Seems like a good thing Justin didnt do that....for Justin anyways.
Its sad that the Conservatives got almost 250,000 more votes but lost.
In effect this Country is being taken somewhere most of us dont want to go by someone we didnt agree to follow. I think theres a term for that....
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And you replied with:
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
That's all true, but another way to look at it is:
Popular vote:
Liberal: 33.1 (157 seats)
NDP: 15.9 (24 seats)
Green: 6.5 (2 seats)
Tories: 34.4 (121 seats)
PPCs: 1.6 (0 seats)
Bloc: 7.7% (32 seats)
So 55.5% for the left/center left
36% for the right/center right
and 7.7% for the Bloc, whatever they identify as these days - labour left/immigration right/etc.
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Your argument was that 55% of Canadians voted for left/center left.
That is not true. A large number of LPC voters are right/center, right. Impossible to say what percentage of course, but the NDP has never really been able to expand their base, even when the LPC has been struggling. That would suggest that there aren't all that many left/center voters in the LPC.