GT: Federal Election

[Manhattanboy]

Originally Posted by V

I don't know if it's just my machine, but the CBC dashboard is not updating. Still shows Hehr quite a bit behind, although the colour of the riding changed. How can they not be providing up to date updates?

Well they will be happy with all of our money they're gonna git.

[PsYcNeT]

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Mike F

I have no doubt that you have no doubt about that, and that you will continue to have no doubt regardless of actual results

Did someone say No Doubt?

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Pretty happy that my vote helped get Liberal representation to Ottawa from Calgary.

This one was over long before it got to Calgary.

[flylock shox]

Trudeau is running on fumes right now. I hope he takes the next week off.

I could never do all this campaigning. It looks both exhausting and insufferable. And then there's the risk someone finds a compromising Facebook post from years ago.

Credit to all who put themselves out there.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Weitz

No one cared the first time you posted this.

Get used it. It'll be quoted everytime someone under the age of 45 cries about the NEP for the next few years.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Hehr back to the front by 300 votes.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Mike F

I have no doubt that you have no doubt about that, and that you will continue to have no doubt regardless of actual results

Wrong, but I appreciate the cheap shot.

[polak]

Also didn't want a majority. Sucks that for some stupid reason Alberta cant have a left party that represents its interest.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

The old man focused his rheumy, grey eyes at the impudent young coward seated across from him. Through the smoke and ash of the fire, he growled furiously

"Aye, ye don't ken what I be tellin' yah." He dismissively waved his hand towards the group of chuckling men and took a long pull from his jug. "Ye were piglets, sucklin' from yer ma's teat when Trudeau rode in with his EHN-EEE-PEE and cut off Adam Smith's hand at the wrist."

He squinted harshly at the night sky, stars whirling overhead, mixed through the miasma of cinder and smoke. Whether the tears tattooing lines in his haggard face were from ash or sadness, none could tell.

What is this crap? Dont you have a relevant Onion article you can quote?

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Locke

What is this crap? Dont you have a relevant Onion article you can quote?

I could just point out that the boogeyman of the NEP is much different from the reality again and again, but it's easier to just quote myself.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Locke

What is this crap? Dont you have a relevant Onion article you can quote?

I think it's from one of those random paragraph generators but not as good.

[WhiteTiger]

I kind of wonder why they bother with a French translation. They say the same thing in English as in French

[Dagger]

Originally Posted by sworkhard

Only partly. The ability to represent your riding in government also has to be a concern.

However, now that we have a liberal government, the potential of having effective representation in a liberal majority government by people like Grant and Hehr is something we should all want, even if you'd rather a different party was governing, and a different candidate representing you within that government.

That's not true at all. By your logic, every riding should thus want a Liberal representative in the house.

The best candidate is the one most closely aligned to one's views.

[Frequitude]

Hehr up by 450 with 155/217 reporting. His biggest margin yet since it got meaningful.

[Kjesse]

I started off liking Trudeau's speech but now he's just getting into talking about platitudes, kind of reminds me of how Obama played the US electorate. High and airy speech. Lacks substance.

[YYC in LAX]

Webber with the win for Confederation

[M*A*S*H 4077]

This translator is so annoying. Let us listen to the Prime Minister.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Get used it. It'll be quoted everytime someone under the age of 45 cries about the NEP for the next few years.

Nice. It has nothing to do with the NEP, but its good to get confirmation that you're totally clueless.

Heres a quick lesson for you son:

Our province has an NDP Government with no federal support.

Our country has a Liberal Government and as yet no Federal Liberal MPs from Alberta.

No one with any sort of power has any incentive or ability whatsoever to take care of Alberta or ensure that our voice gets heard.

But yeah, keep spewing whatever nonsense it is that you think you know.

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by polak

Also didn't want a majority. Sucks that for some stupid reason Alberta cant have a left party that represents its interest.

Start one. You're definitely not alone, and no time like the present. There's no telling where the Conservatives go from here.