Election 2008

rdrake · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:38 am

...So vote if you haven't already! Polling doesn't close until 9:30.

SNIPERDUDE · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:41 am

Planning on it.

People's thoughts on the election?

jbking · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:24 pm

I'm in Toryland here, near Stephen Harper's riding where I doubt there will be any change.

My guess is that the Tories will get another Minority, with NDP gaining a little ground on the Liberals.

My hope would be for more NDP in and less Bloc Quebecois as I don't see how a party that runs in just one province could wield so much power.

HellblazerX · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:07 pm

jbking @ Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:24 pm wrote:

I don't see how a party that runs in just one province could wield so much power.

That one province is pretty big.

As for me, I voted Liberal. I'd like to go NDP, however, the candidate in my riding doesn't have much of a chance, so I voted Liberal so the Conservatives don't get this riding. Kinda of a bad practice, but I wouldn't have to resort to this if our election system wasn't so bad.

CodeMonkey2000 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:13 pm

I can't vote yet, but I would vote liberal. Right now voting NDP is pretty much throwing away your vote imo.

Zeroth · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:16 pm

I'm voting green. The greens are great. They have a very exhaustive and complete plan for Canada, which, contrary to Jack Layton's claims, has actual plans on how to deal with the staffing shortages in medicine. I checked the file history... they had it before Layton's announcements of what he would offer. In addition, they have a section on technology and IT, specifying that they would use open source software in government, and open formats.

twtmc · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:22 pm

Had I a vote it would go towards the green party.

md · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:33 pm

CodeMonkey2000 @ 2008-10-14, 3:13 pm wrote:

I can't vote yet, but I would vote liberal. Right now voting NDP is pretty much throwing away your vote imo.

If everyone voted the way you did then the NDP and Green parties would never gain any share. The system works when people vote for who they want, not against who they don't want.

If you haven't voted yet you have a little less then two hours left.

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:38 pm

Done sir!

Also, completely agreed with jbking.

StealthArcher · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:00 pm

Done.

Edmonton-Strathcona Riding. Much different obvious turnout than my old riding of Thunder Bay-Rainy River would've been.

And yes I voted Conservative. Bitch all you want.

Dan · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:13 pm

16 mins and 10 seconds to vote! (for EST at least)

StealthArcher · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:47 pm

Voting in MT has finished as of 17 minutes ago.

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:29 pm

Conservatives for majority, anyone? Neutral

SNIPERDUDE · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:31 pm

CodeMonkey2000 @ October 14th 2008 wrote:

I can't vote yet, but I would vote liberal. Right now voting NDP is pretty much throwing away your vote imo.

Haha, that's how I felt about voting Green (comparing Green and NDP)

Either who I voted Green.
They can only gain ground through our votes.

gitoxa · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:41 pm

Gandalf @ Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:29 pm wrote:

Conservatives for majority, anyone? Neutral

Four more years...
Le sigh.

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