It's election day here in Canada.

[ghostsofgiants]

PARTY!

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. May the right things happen.

Happy belated Thanksgiving.

[blueraven95]

5. shouldn't it be "may the left things happen"?

:evilgrin:

[jakefrep]

2. Good luck!

May you be rid of that douchenozzle Harper.

[terrya]

3. My best hopes that Stephen Harper won't be your Prime Minister after today.

:party:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Wouldn't you know it, that's mine, too!

[Lucy Goosey]

6. Please let the Liberals pull through with a minority...

Please! I'm really an NDP at heart, but they aren't winning this thing, and with the HarperCons saying that winning a second minority government provides them with a "strong mandate" to do whatever the fuck they want, I'm all for strategic voting.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Strategic voting is bullshit.

Very few ridings have tight enough races that strategic voting would be necessary for.

[Lucy Goosey]

8. That's the problem...

I agree with strategic voting in theory, but in practice it won't really do much good.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. I disagree with it in theory.

It's inherently anti-democratic. What we need isn't strategic voting, it's proportional representation.

[tigereye]

12. I love that you guys call your districts? ridings...

sounds so British...


hope things turn out well. It always blows me away that there are wacko conservatives up there who sound just like the wackos here. :scared:

[tjwmason]

37. Riding is strictly a Canadianism

We call them constituencies. :hi:

[Lucy Goosey]

10. On proportional representation, we agree. We need electoral reform badly.

I just don't have a problem with strategic voting in our current system.

[applegrove]

11. & Google in Canada has a great election graphic up. One of the "o"s in google is

a checkbox. Thought that was a nice local touch.

[Dangerously Amused]

13. I think you guys should vote to annex Alaska. By force, if necessary.

Seriously.

[Orsino]

14. Fuck Alaska! Could Georgia be adopted, instead?

:evilgrin:

[Darth_Kitten]

Whoopee, 300,000,000 million spent for another Conservative minority.

Yippee...... :eyes:

[Darth_Kitten]

15. Whoopee, 300,000,000 million spent for another Conservative minority.

Yippee...... :eyes:

[ghostsofgiants]

19. If we're lucky, the NDP will pick up enough seats to hold balance of power.

[applegrove]

32. What a waste. The only one who really gained was the block quebecois.

[Taverner]

16. Go Liberals and NDP!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I will waive my maple leaf tonight. nt

[LisaM]

18. When will the wall-to-wall coverage end?

It's so incessant.

:sarcasm:


Seriously, do most people here even know it's happening? (I watch Canadian TV, so I did!) In fact, I've lived in two states that border Canada, so I probably should be appointed ambassador when all is said and done.

[terrya]

20. I still can't get over the fact that your election campaign lasts....45 days.

Compared to the TWO year + marathon our Presidential elections have become. :-(

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Yeah, we're doing okay at not turning it into a circus.

[PeaceNikki]

22. w00t!!

[ironflange]

23. Yeah, another futile vote from me

I live in Harper's riding, so any vote from me is strictly a symbolic gesture. I've also been represented in the past by Ralph Klein and Peter Lougheed. What did I ever do to deserve this?

[ghostsofgiants]

24. My riding is super tight between the NDP candidate and the Liberal candidate.

I'm pulling for the NDP candidate, of course.

The other riding in my city went almost 75% NDP.

[jonnyblitz]

25. we get the CBC here on my parents' cable in Maine where i am

visiting! perhaps i will check out what is happening later this evening. I like that channel, maybe you guys up there don't. :shrug:

I also know NOTHING about your politics. I am embarrassed.

[ghostsofgiants]

26. CBC is what I am watching.

It has some decent programming and news coverage.

[tigereye]

27. how is it looking?

what are the predictions overall? Are you guys poll obsessed like we are?

[ghostsofgiants]

28. It'll probably be a Conservative minorty. Most of the country hasn't reported in yet though.

Atlantic Canada makes up a small portion of the House of Commons. The Conservatives got shut out of my province though. A little proud of that.

[tigereye]

29. does it go as late as we do stateside?

did you do some campaign work? :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

30. I didn't have any time to do any campaign work, sadly.

It'll probably be a later night than usual with this election, it would seem.

[tigereye]

31. I'm going to a GOTV training tomorrow night

I like to door knock.

[quakerboy]

33. You have my sympathies

I hope that our little revival down here will help yall next time around.

[enigmatic]

34. Linda Duncan for the NDP won in my riding

Very, very happy about this:

http://www.electlindaduncan.ca/enindex.html

[u4ic]

35. Hey enigmatic!

:hug:

We're in the same riding. :D

I am thrilled beyond belief!! And sooooooo happy as Jaffer was making his victory speech when he found out Linda took over the lead.

Major raspberry to Jaffer! :P

:bounce: :party: :woohoo: :toast: :bounce:

[enigmatic]

36. That was freakin' awesome, wasn't it?

Hi u4ic!!:hug:

I'm still laughing about that! I'm still waiting on my citizenship so I wasn't able to vote, but I did what I could to help get the word out. It was a small victory in the grand scheme of tonight, but it was sweet nonetheless :D

[ghostsofgiants]

38. Nice.