11-26-2012, 10:31 PM
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#781
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by pepper24
Anyone who voted Green Party threw their vote away. They have about 25% of the vote.
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I think a vote for Locke because he has the best chance at beating the evil party that has a government majority is a wasted vote.
I got Locke's pamphlet in the mail today. It was desperation. It rambled about being the only one able to beat Crockatt. It showed pictures of him with Nenshi and Redford as if they were endorsing him. His campaign turned into suggesting a vote for him was the only vote against Crockatt. He really didn't do anything deserve my vote. Rewarding that type of campaign is about as bad as rewarding the no-show Crockatt.
When I look at the Twitter discussion between Brett Wilson and Stephen Carter, my vote is helping prove that Calgarians do not just blindly vote for someone or blindly against someone. And that means my vote was very worthwhile. My vote mattered. Maybe not to select my current MP, but hopefully for something more.
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11-26-2012, 10:33 PM
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#782
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Fire
If Calgary Centre voters wanted to do a protest vote they should have backed Turner and not a party with a deep rooted hatred and jealously of Alberta.
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I live in Calgary Centre. And just what would we be protesting against?
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11-26-2012, 10:34 PM
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#783
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jtfrogger
I got Locke's pamphlet in the mail today. It was desperation. It rambled about being the only one able to beat Crockatt. It showed pictures of him with Nenshi and Redford as if they were endorsing him.
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Damn, I was sure it was Justin's fault 
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11-26-2012, 10:36 PM
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#784
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Originally Posted by moon
Didn't BC (and your city) recently vote in Elizabeth May?
Not sure you should be criticizing other provinces in regards to their idiot candidates.
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The difference is, is that Alberta votes PC good bad or indifferent. There seems to be no thought into your elections. This one looked promising though.
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11-26-2012, 10:37 PM
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#785
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Richmond, BC
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If Galloway wins, there's going to be backlash. Not only did they send out a pamphlet on Thursday that said he was endorsed by David Suzuki (Suzuki doesn't generally endorse candidates and didn't endorse Galloway), but they also delivered door handle flyers that said the same thing yesterday, after three days of apologies for the "mistake".
Up 8404-8220 now. 175/256.
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11-26-2012, 10:38 PM
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#786
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Just quickly totalled what canadians voted tonight in the 3 ridings...with quite a few more still to come in Victoria for mainly the Dippers and the Green...
Cons......29,418
NDP.......17,547
Green.....16,165
Liberal...17,136
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11-26-2012, 10:38 PM
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#787
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vulcan
The difference is, is that Alberta votes PC good bad or indifferent. There seems to be no thought into your elections. This one looked promising though.
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who needs thought when you have history
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11-26-2012, 10:40 PM
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#788
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Lifetime Suspension
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There is no history, Conservative since the beginning of time.
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11-26-2012, 10:42 PM
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#789
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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well if you don't get it - maybe you are the one not putting thought into something
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11-26-2012, 10:43 PM
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#790
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vulcan
The difference is, is that Alberta votes PC good bad or indifferent. There seems to be no thought into your elections. This one looked promising though.
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Not true at all. Alberta generally votes right of centre but that vote has drifted between parties many times. The PC's of today are nothing like the PC's 10 years ago or the Lougheed PC's. The Wildrose made a huge gain last election and could easily win the next election. Federally the Reform was nothing like the Mulroney PC's who are nothing like the CPC of today. To just claim that all these parties are the same because they are on the right side of centre is ignorant.
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11-26-2012, 10:46 PM
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#791
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Originally Posted by Tinordi
There is no history, Conservative since the beginning of time.
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Because Albertans know what is best for themselves.
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11-26-2012, 10:47 PM
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#792
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
I live in Calgary Centre. And just what would we be protesting against?
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How you've suffered under a CPC MP.
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11-26-2012, 10:48 PM
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#793
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lethbridge
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vulcan
The difference is, is that Alberta votes PC good bad or indifferent. There seems to be no thought into your elections. This one looked promising though.
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Or people in Alberta vote Conservative because it is the party that best represents their views.
When other parties have popped up with views that work for Albertans they get votes as well.
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11-26-2012, 10:51 PM
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#794
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Franchise Player
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The Green was up by 200+ and now the NDP is up by 300+ a few minutes later.
Edit: Make that 550+
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11-26-2012, 10:53 PM
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#795
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary in Heart, Ottawa in Body
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacks
The Green was up by 200+ and now the NDP is up by 300+ a few minutes later.
Edit: Make that 550+
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Yup, that was a crazy swing. Unless there is a massive pocket of Green supporters it looks over for him.
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11-26-2012, 10:53 PM
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#796
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CP's Resident DJ
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In the Gin Bin
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Regardless of the results, a big thumbs up that we still use paper ballots and have a trail of them afterwards.
Please, do NOT go electronic... ever.
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11-26-2012, 10:54 PM
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#797
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Richmond, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacks
The Green was up by 200+ and now the NDP is up by 300+ a few minutes later.
Edit: Make that 550+
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I don't know how that happens. It was so fast. SO slow all night, then BANG.
It's gotta be geographic, but I don't know where the lines are...it's green vs NDP!
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11-26-2012, 10:59 PM
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#798
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Franchise Player
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In the end, wasn't Calgary Centre all too predictable? It was shaping up this way right from the start.
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11-26-2012, 10:59 PM
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#799
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by moon
Or people in Alberta vote Conservative because it is the party that best represents their views.
When other parties have popped up with views that work for Albertans they get votes as well.
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Well I'm replying to how the rest of the country looks at you just as you look at Elizabeth Mae. The other parties that have popped up are even more right wing than the PC. Honestly speaking the Wild Rose looks like a bunch of scary wing nuts and the only thing keeping a lot of the federal PC from crossing the line is the hold that Harper has on them.
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11-26-2012, 10:59 PM
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#800
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Just quickly totalled what canadians voted tonight in the 3 ridings...with quite a few more still to come in Victoria for mainly the Dippers and the Green...
Cons......29,418
NDP.......17,547
Green.....16,165
Liberal...17,136
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Kinda a sad indictment about how far the Liberal's have fallen.
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