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DynamicSloth posted:CBC News has rolled out a big TV and put the Elections Canada web page on it. I thought the same thing. Brutal coverage.
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I got home all excited to grab my utility bill and vote in Burnaby South cause I just moved here last month. Nope! Just inside Burnaby-New West. God drat it.  I do have a question though. Where the gently caress were the NDP campaigning? I drive Kingsway every day for work and the only signs are for the weird People's Party lady and about two for the Conservative (not counting the "Rally" that was at Willingdon this morning on the way to work). Chicken Doodle fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Feb 26, 2019 |
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I saw a lot of Singh signs busing through Marine Drive.
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Also bussing through residential areas the lawn signs were like 2/3 NDP 1/3 PPC.
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Entropic posted:I mean, I kind of want the NDP to have to find a new leader but I don't know who they'd even pick that would be good at this point. It's time for Niki Ashton.
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apatheticman posted:This thread doesn't want centrists. Notley is probably more left than Singh at this point.
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Feb 26, 2019 05:09
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CBC calling it for Jagmeet.
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CBC calls it for Singh. He raised the NDP vote over the last election too. Pretty good result for him.
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less than three posted:CBC calling it for Jagmeet. gently caress. Welp, here's to 5+ years of futility.
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The NDP tried to phone me as soon as it was called, to beg for money I imagine. Nope nope nope.
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So much for the PPC poll results. From the CBC website: quote:Results from Burnaby South in B.C., show NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh leading with 37.7 per cent of the vote to the Liberals' 26.4 per cent and the Conservatives' 22.3 per cent, with 120 of 196 polls reporting.
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You don't publish a poll like that because it's accurate, you publish it because it excites your voters to think they're going to go out and vote for a potential winner.
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https://twitter.com/LauraLynnTT/status/1099496273076338688 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GaXa8tSBE
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Well, if that's any indication, maybe the PPC will end up significantly splitting the right-wing vote after all.
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Jan posted:Well, if that's any indication, maybe the PPC will end up significantly splitting the right-wing vote after all. LLTT got a fair bit of press as the "first" PPC candidate and Burnaby was a hot ticket. The other two had dismal results for the PPC. In York the trolling "PC Party" (which I believe is the "Progressive Canadian Party") got twice as many votes as the PPC candidate. It's not wise to write them off just yet, of course, because it's 2019 and everything is terrible, but overall a weak showing for Mad Max, imo.
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Jan posted:Well, if that's any indication, maybe the PPC will end up significantly splitting the right-wing vote after all. The conservatives went from 27% last election to 22.5%, but the CPC-PPC "united shithead" vote was at about 33%. Which is representative of the long game for right wing splits like the PPC — politically activate people who were too bloodthirsty or so-goddamned-crazy to vote for the CPC and then bring them into the fold.
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Is Singh the first POC leader of a major political party in Canada?
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zapplez posted:Is Singh the first POC leader of a major political party in Canada? Yes, unless you count Vivian Barbot who was interim leader of the Bloc for six months. (so, yes)
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zapplez posted:Is Singh the first POC leader of a major political party in Canada? Hmmm and the NDP vote is tanking in Quebec.
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So maybe Jagmeet can be a good leader now?  Nah.
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vyelkin posted:Yes, unless you count Vivian Barbot who was interim leader of the Bloc for six months. Singh will be the first to sit in the House as Leader (for a handful of weeks).
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Honestly I wish he’d just lost. That way the NDP could start purging and hopefully become a real left wing party. I have absolutely no faith in Jagmeet.
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1100401605499744257
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1100401605499744257 Its decent policy, actual universal child care would be better
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bunnyofdoom posted:
The child benefit is basically a mincome for people with kids. It's unambiguously good policy. They just need to also extend it to people without kids. I assist a fair number of legal aid clients with custody/child support issues. The majority are either students or on social assistance, receiving less than $1,400 per month. The child benefit generally brings their yearly income to around ~$30,000, allowing them to actually provide a decent life for their kids. bub spank fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Feb 26, 2019 |
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ARACHTION posted:Let’s say the NDP has a dismal result this general election. Would Singh step down or argue that with only a couple of months as leader, it isn’t representative of his leadership? No way he can survive a general election if he pulls only the 15-17% of the vote he's currently polling at. That would be the NDPs worst showing in decades
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1100401605499744257 CCB is hilarious policy, if your household income is under 150k you still get hella cash. Child havers: stash the CCB cash into a RESP for an instant 20% return. It's free money
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A Typical Goon posted:No way he can survive a general election if he pulls only the 15-17% of the vote he's currently polling at. That would be the NDPs worst showing in decades I wonder, if Angus and Singh are the only contenders who still hold seats after the election what would the party do? I can't imagine they'll be much appetite for another leader without a seat.
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1100401605499744257 Looking at the (rather alarming, I figured it'd be bad, but not that bad) figures for female single parents living below the poverty line, I guess I have to go with Good. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/190226/t002b-eng.htm
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Arivia posted:Honestly I wish he’d just lost. That way the NDP could start purging and hopefully become a real left wing party. I have absolutely no faith in Jagmeet. jagmeet is a lovely centrist because the party apparatus is controlled by lovely centrists. the next leader is going to be a lovely centrist too unless a real grassmoots movement to push a real leftist emerges
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quote:Trudeau government’s handling of SNC-Lavalin affair opens seven-point lead for CPC over Liberals It would be amazing if the dueling brain trusts leading the Libs and the NDP somehow manage to engineer the perfect political storm where the NDP vote totally collapses but the Conservatives still win a majority, and while the provincial conservatives are enjoying a majority government in Ontario. Those things aren't supposed to happen in Canadian politics which means that's probably exactly what will go down later this year.
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Helsing posted:It would be amazing if the dueling brain trusts leading the Libs and the NDP somehow manage to engineer the perfect political storm where the NDP vote totally collapses but the Conservatives still win a majority, and while the provincial conservatives are enjoying a majority government in Ontario. Those things aren't supposed to happen in Canadian politics which means that's probably exactly what will go down later this year. But what if instead we got a PC minority propped up for four years by the Liberals because they refuse to consider a coalition with the NDP? Wouldn't that be the most Canadian of all outcomes?
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infernal machines posted:But what if instead we got a PC minority propped up for four years by the Liberals because they refuse to consider a coalition with the NDP? Wouldn't that be the most Canadian of all outcomes? If the recent past is any guide then the Liberals would respond to this by acclaiming Mark Carney leader, forcing an election they aren't ready for, not bothering to campaign and then blaming the NDP when they drop to third party status.
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Helsing posted:If the recent past is any guide then the Liberals would respond to this by acclaiming Mark Carney leader, forcing an election they aren't ready for, not bothering to campaign and then blaming the NDP when they drop to third party status. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsyFgXts9yg
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Wow, you're right, then the NDP would be the official opposition again! At least as good as the best outcome they've ever had federally. We can't lose!
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