My obligatory election post
January 23rd, 2006 by Bill
It’s election day in Canada, a topic I’ve avoided discussing in any of my blogs because, as a general rule, I find most online political ramblings to lack anything even remotely approaching objectivity. They’re usually just rants.
Nothing wrong with that, mind you. I rant all the time. But rants are not persuasive and rarely informative. They just kind of tell people what they want to hear.
Anyway … thanks to Bree, I came upon a tool over at The Globe and Mail. It told me where my political leanings were in this election. According to it, I’m an improbable Albertan. Using points, it showed me as:
Liberal: 3
Bloc: 2
Green: 1
NDP: 1
Conservative: 0
Well, I could have told you that. But I suspect that what we’ll end up with is a minority Conservative government.
This election, as almost every election, is not going to be about who wins. It will be about who loses. In this case, it will be the Liberals who lost the election. While western Canada is clearly Conservative (well, Alberta certainly is), I just don’t believe the east actually supports the Tories. They are just sick to death of a cynical Liberal party that puts itself first.
So they’ll get turfed. But who knows? While everyone is predicting a Conservative win, and many a Conservative majority, as the pollsters like to say, Canadian voters can be “volatile.” You can never be sure where we’ll jump.
(And just so you know … while I’m not a supporter of the Conservatives I’m also not one of those people who think they represent the end of civilization. I like some of their ideas. However, as a general rule, we’re not on the same page in the way we see things.)
