How will CalgaryPuck vote?

[transplant99]

If you vote for Liberal or Conservative your nothing but a moron.

Trust me people, do what the Germans recently did and start thinking about your childrens future...vote NDP or Green.

Ladies and Gentlemen...the future of your country has spoken.


RUN AWAY!!!!

[Winsor_Pilates]

Still undecided. Won't be Conservative, and won't be Liberal. Likely NDP, but not quite sure yet.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

I'm the first to vote for 'Other'.

I was leaning towards the Conservatives, but the Tory candidate in my riding was recently found out to have been charged with trying to sneak a car and booze into the country.

So he's out.

Right now, I have no idea who I'm voting for, I just feel it's my duty to at least drag my butt off the couch and vote for somebody........just won't know who it is until I'm in the voting booth.

[Incinerator]

Originally Posted by FurnaceFace

I'm in Cowtown center. I did NOT vote conservative (advance poll) because I want to send a small message to them, I feel they need to actually pay attention to the constituency. It irks me they seem to have done little or nothing to try and win my vote, they assumed I'd give it to them because I'm a Calgarian. Sorry, you need to work for my vote, the other parties did.

I thought it was my own small protest but it appears others have a similar problem at least out west. Don't think it'll matter, the city will go blue along with almost all of the province. I'm just hoping to make them sweat a little more than last time.

I'm in your riding and I always get flyers from Lee Richardson in my mailbox updating on what he's up to and that's good enough for me, I never had any issues that makes me feel compelled to call my MP, my alderman Barry Erskine on the other hand doesn't seem to give much of a hoot at all, and that's what counts locally.

[transplant99]

I would really like to see the breakdown of the parties votes by age as well.

My guess is that anyone 30 and over is MUCH more likely to go Blue, while the other parties by and large would be getting support from those under 30.

[Rejean31]

I don't care who you vote for. But it ****es me off royally when people say they aren't going to vote. A lot of good people gave up their lives for your right to do so. Anybody who doesn't vote has no right to bitch about the government we get. The ten who said they aren't going to bother voting really need to give their heads a shake.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Rejean31

I don't care who you vote for. But it ****es me off royally when people say they aren't going to vote. A lot of good people gave up their lives for your right to do so.

I dont get this attitude myself. Our soldiers died so we would have the right to vote, yet people do not have the right not to vote?

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by Rejean31

I don't care who you vote for. But it ****es me off royally when people say they aren't going to vote. A lot of good people gave up their lives for your right to do so. Anybody who doesn't vote has no right to bitch about the government we get. The ten who said they aren't going to bother voting really need to give their heads a shake.

I dont vote because half of what they say is empty promises anyways so why bother?

[evman150]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

I dont get this attitude myself. Our soldiers died so we would have the right to vote, yet people do not have the right not to vote?

It's just disrespectful. IMO anyway.

[Daradon]

Wow, a lot of people here aren't going to vote. That surprises me. I know we don't have much in the way of good options, but at least say something. Spoil your ballot, write your own name in (I did this once in a Provincial election, I got three votes!) but take the opportunity to vote. It's not like we're getting shot at making our way to the polls like so many other poor people arund the world.

I'll be voting green, and I challenge anyone who feels their say doesn't matter or it isn't worth it to do the same. Will they win any seats, probably not, especially here in Alberta, but the larger the popular vote they get, the more other parties will sit up and take notice, the stonger they can come out next time. I think I read something about needing a certain percentage of the pop vote to qualify as a national party. I thought they had done this last time, but more can't hurt.

Regardless, I'm not going to thumb my nose at anyones refusal to vote, that's the best thing about a democracy, is having the choice. But I repsect people like Table 5 who sends his in for a Green vote that probably won't matter, or Kootnay who will get to the booth just for the sake of getting to the booth.

It's one of the few responsibilities we are asked of. And unfortunately, it's the best process we have thus far.

[Frank the Tank]

I'm voting Liberal just to **** everyone off. And, to do my part in protecting this country against a Conservative majority. Oh how you Conservatives LOVE to spend my money!

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by evman150

It's just disrespectful. IMO anyway.

To whom?

[ernie]

Originally Posted by the crispy badger

Conservative...I see my values leaning more towards them..even though Maritimers were called a "culture of defeat that we have to overcome"..it's time for a change in Ottawa..and it just might be a landslide

Well Maritime liberal MP's said the same thing around that time...they just phrased it in a more politically correct manner.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

I dont get this attitude myself. Our soldiers died so we would have the right to vote, yet people do not have the right not to vote?

In Australia, voting is compulsory and you are fined about $50 if you do not vote. Turnout is 90% plus.

I think I saw an article a few days ago indicating such a law is under consideration in some Canadian provinces.

Cowperson

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by fotze

It is a weird law though. Would you like an additional 30% of people to vote who have absolutely no idea who they are voting for because they are screwed in the head or don't care. Would that increase the amount of candidates changing there names into eye catching one for the dummies to pick in the booth.

Would you vote for John Smith or Slappy Slapperton?

There was a time when only property owners had the right to vote. There was a time when only men could vote.

The NDP thinks its a good idea for 16 year-olds to vote.

An old poli-sci prof once told me 75% of people are chronic know-nothings and shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzeneger are examples of name recognition alone potentially being a decisive factor in selecting a qualified candidate.

You've seen people in this thread who might well be bright and intelligent as well as informed choosing not to vote . . . . . . and you know full well there are plenty of chronic know-nothings who fall for the first lie told to them while eagerly casting their ballots.

There's no such thing as a perfect democracy.

I'd be in favour of a mandatory voting law.

Cowperson

[Incinerator]

Originally Posted by Inferno

I dont vote because half of what they say is empty promises anyways so why bother?

Would you like to live under an absolute monachy then? How'bout a authoritarian dictatorship a la Hitler/Stalin/Mao? Show up and spoil your ballot if you really can't bring yourself to vote for anyone, it's an exercise of democracy and your responsiblity as a Canadian living under a democractic Canada.

[Flashpoint]

I don't vote because I don't live in Canada. I feel it would be unfair for me to affect someone else's riding with my vote when I don't live in it. When I lived in Canada (and when I return) I always voted, and feel it is important.

Otherwise you can't complain about the government!

Harper scares me. He reminds me too much of Bush. You don't want the religious right running Canada, and I fear that is what we are heading towards.

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by Incinerator

Would you like to live under an absolute monachy then? How'bout a authoritarian dictatorship a la Hitler/Stalin/Mao? Show up and spoil your ballot if you really can't bring yourself to vote for anyone, it's an exercise of democracy and your responsiblity as a Canadian living under a democractic Canada.

I wouldnt know who to vote for anyways since I dont follow politics so I trust that my fellow Canadians who do will make the right choice.

[Hakan]

I don't get this sense of duty that many of proposing here to get out and vote.

The chances of your vote being the deciding factor in a provincial election (don't know federal but it's even worse) is some like 1 to 100,000. Infact your chances of getting hit by a bus and killed on your way to the polling station are higher than your vote counting one iota.

Why do we need to vote? The average citizen is so woefully uninformed on the differences between parties and the like that it's not like they're actually contributing to a flourishing democracy. And I'm not chastizing the average citizen here.

You have to look at a cost-benefit ratio. The time spent learning each party's platform and analyzing each party's historical performance pro-rated to the current state of the nation and economy to the zeitgeist of when the party they were voting for was last in power compared to the actual benefits that individual will achieve if the party he/she voted for gets into to power are so insignificant that most people purposefully remain ignorant.

So what's worse? Nobody voting or people voting for the completely wrong reasons? I like Jack's moustache I'll vote for him to me is worse than just not voting. If enough people don't vote then that will create the momentum to seriously re-examine the way we choose our leaders and the way our country is governed. By voting for ultimately trivial attributes you perpetuate that system of ignorance and apathy.

Finally, I think as a political statement a non-vote is righteous. What if none of the parties speak for me? What if I agree with none of the platforms? Should I still vote for someone? Not if they don't really represent me.

Anyway, this has been a cynical take but I think we're simplifying things way too much in regard of the debate to vote or not to vote. This country isn't going to become any more or less democratic if I don't cast a ballot. That said, I will gladly vote. I have voted in every single student, municipal, provincial and federal election that I have been eligible for. Infact, I'm throwing an election party on Monday night with the 4 parties themed snacks!

The conservative snack is blue cheese, because they stink.

[WinColumn]

I would've voted for Lee Richardson and the Conservatives, but I can't. It's a combination of changing my address too late, not having my drivers license back in time, and work sending me to Edmonton on Monday on short notice. It kills me that I can't vote, even if my vote won't change the outcome.

IMO, I think everyone should make the effort to get informed and vote. Apathy is what will kill this country, not the religeous right. Well...that and corruption. Luckily we have a say in who gets into power.

As the P. Diddy once said, "Vote or die!". Okay, forget I said that. It didn't work for him either.