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Shack
Devil's Advocate
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Canadian election thread
Not sure how much you guys care about this down there, but there is at least one other Canuck here (Mister Ecks) so I guess that's enough
I think a lot of people want the brown facing fuckboi Trudeau to lose more than they are into Scheer. Prediction: The Liberals have better get out to vote and Trudeau remains PM by a hair. Then again this is the same country where the least charismatic person of all time (Stephen Harper) was PM for almost 10 years so it sure is different than US President Idol
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Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:37 pm |
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Mister Ecks
New Server, Same X
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm Posts: 28292 Location: ... siiiigh...
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Re: Canadian election thread
I really don't want to look at Scheer for four years.
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Barrabás
llegó a la casa vía marítima
Joined: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:53 pm Posts: 6138 Location: la gran casa de la esquina
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Re: Canadian election thread
Looks like four more years of Trudeau lol
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
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Re: Canadian election thread
I was going to vote but I decided I didn't want to walk a kilometre in pouring rain for Andrew Scheer, which I think is a metaphor for why the Conservatives lost
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:36 am |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11006 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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Re: Canadian election thread
Looks like the Aladdin backlash was not enough
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:54 am |
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i.hope
Defeats all expectations
Joined: Fri May 26, 2006 5:04 pm Posts: 6665
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Re: Canadian election thread
Party vote shares: Conservative (center-right) - 34.4% Liberal (center-left) - 33.1% New Democrat (left, social-democratic) - 15.9% Bloc Québécois (center-left, Quebec sovereignist) - 7.7% Green (left, environmentalist) - 6.5% People's Party (right) - 1.6% https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/Canada has a "single-seat, first-past-the-post" election system. Still, third parties like New Democrat and the Greens are able to receive significant vote shares. Can someone with knowledge explain why?
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:22 pm |
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Keyser Söze
Quality is a great business plan
Joined: Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:21 pm Posts: 6166
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Re: Canadian election thread
So 64% of vote went to the left of the center.
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:38 pm |
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
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Re: Canadian election thread
i.hope wrote: Party vote shares: Conservative (center-right) - 34.4% Liberal (center-left) - 33.1% New Democrat (left, social-democratic) - 15.9% Bloc Québécois (center-left, Quebec sovereignist) - 7.7% Green (left, environmentalist) - 6.5% People's Party (right) - 1.6% https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/Canada has a "single-seat, first-past-the-post" election system. Still, third parties like New Democrat and the Greens are able to receive significant vote shares. Can someone with knowledge explain why? You vote for people to represent that riding in parliament, so the NDP's 24 seats out of 338 are meaningful as for example for the liberals to get majority votes passing bills they will need NDP or the Bloc to vote with them. The NDP are usually the 3rd strongest party (they were 2nd in 2011 with a very popular leader Jack Layton who died shortly after) and had slightly disappointing performance this time I think. If the US had a similar system Bernie would have his own party and would be debates to the end, and would have influence later in parliament. The Greens mostly serve the protest vote purpose they do in the US and win a few seats an election. NDP do well in West coast (and are in power in BC provincially) and Manitoba and Conservatives dominate Alberta, but Liberals win the dense populated areas in Ontario. I think Quebec toggles between supporting Liberal or NDP or just going fuck you we're voting French if they don't like the other candidates which is what happened this time
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Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:06 pm |
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Barrabás
llegó a la casa vía marítima
Joined: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:53 pm Posts: 6138 Location: la gran casa de la esquina
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Re: Canadian election thread
Lol at Quebec saying "fuck it" and going full Quebecois
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21634 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: Canadian election thread
Huh, Canada does have a government. Good for them!
I don't know, people say south of the border is crazy, but Canada is fucking crazy every time I've ventured.
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i.hope
Defeats all expectations
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Re: Canadian election thread
Shack wrote: i.hope wrote: Party vote shares: Conservative (center-right) - 34.4% Liberal (center-left) - 33.1% New Democrat (left, social-democratic) - 15.9% Bloc Québécois (center-left, Quebec sovereignist) - 7.7% Green (left, environmentalist) - 6.5% People's Party (right) - 1.6% https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/Canada has a "single-seat, first-past-the-post" election system. Still, third parties like New Democrat and the Greens are able to receive significant vote shares. Can someone with knowledge explain why? You vote for people to represent that riding in parliament, so the NDP's 24 seats out of 338 are meaningful as for example for the liberals to get majority votes passing bills they will need NDP or the Bloc to vote with them. Unlike in the US where there is separate election for president, Canada's parliamentary elections determine which party is to be in charge of the office of prime minister. The leader of the party winning the most district elections becomes prime minister of Canada. I think Canadians on the left, through strategic voting and party coalition, would converge to one party in each district to maximize the number of seats by each party and keep control of the executive branch.
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