Canadian Election - Live Thread

Tuesday, Oct.14, 2008. | Fanfan

[fanfan]

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Canada Votes

2008

Welcome to the vote to decide the 40th Parliament of Canada

We do not have exit polls in Canada.
Official results are expected at 10 p.m., EST.

Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Latest Polls:

cp: Con 35% Libs 26% Ndp 18% Bloc 10% Grn 9%
cpac: Con 34% Libs 27% Ndp 21% Bloc 10% Grn 8%
Ctv/g&m: Con 33% Libs 28% NDP 18% Grn 11% Bloc 10%
Ang/Reid: Con 38% Libs 28% NDP 19% Bloc 9%, Grn 6%

[fanfan]

[snidely whiplash III]

Vote early and vote often (that’s the liberal way....)

[Cheryllynn]

Good luck!!

[fanfan]

LOL.

We will do what we can.

[fanfan]

Thanks Cheryllynn.

[proud American in Canada]

I really need to get my citizenship, so I can vote.

Here’s hoping the Prime Minister gets, at least, a comfortable majority. The Dow Jones rallying yesterday can’t hurt. :)

[proud American in Canada]

oops... wishful thinking, I guess.

That would be a comfortable minority. :)

[Bahbah]

Thanks for the post, fanfan.

We will be watching hopefully.

[VanDeKoik]

Even though I get most of my Canadian news from MacLeans, I think it safe to say that the Conservatives are in great shape for a huge win today!

Sometimes I honestly wish we had a qusi-parliamentary system here.

[JudyinCanada]

Let’s hope all the ndps and libs can’t be bothered walking to the polling booth today. On second thought, that might give them the idea for a mobile voting unit so they don’t have to budge. A Votemobile - that will be next.

[fanfan]

I really need to get my citizenship, so I can vote.

Yes, you do!

Here’s hoping the Prime Minister gets, at least, a comfortable majority.

I'll take that one. :-D

[fanfan]

Thanks Bahbah.

Do you know how to link an Mp3?

[fanfan]

Just keep thinking.....

Majority.

Majority.

Oh, yes!

[Bahbah]

Do you know how to link an Mp3?

LOL. I am the most technically challenged person I know. I can do some links. Where is the thing you want to link?

[proud American in Canada]

“I’ll take that one.”

LOL! It’s nice to dream. :)

I would use html but my husband put this on to a French keyboard, so I have all kinds of weird symbols. :)

Anyway, I have to get to work, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed today, and I will check in.

[mmichaels1970]

Just got back from The Falls last weekend. Saw Old Fort Erie, Laura Secord House, McFarland House as well. My kids’ first time there. After driving the Niagara Parkway, the kids all wanted to stay. I had to explain to them that not EVERYBODY in Canada lives in houses like those we saw on the scenic route in vineyard country. They think everyone up there is a gajillionaire.

We enjoyed seeing the campaign signs. The kids said something like “look, they have annoying yard signs just like we do”.

In any case, best of luck up there. Here’s hoping conservatism wins the day.

[Clive]

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[fanfan]

It’s a Mp3 file on a local radio station.

Oh, well.

[Bahbah]

What radio station? I’ll see if I can do it if you tell me how to find it.

[fanfan]

The kids said something like “look, they have annoying yard signs just like we do”.

LOL!

Thanks for the good wishes.

[ColoCdn]

I’ll be watching with great interest.

[Bahbah]

Let’s see if this works.

http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/Ae-Peter.Zimojic.Oct13.08.mp3

[fanfan]

Thank you, Bahbah.

You’re good!

I need to go vote, and do a few errands.

I’ll be back in a few hours.

[Bahbah]

Sometimes I just amaze myself. LOL.

[Army Air Corps]

We do not have exit polls in Canada.

I wish that I could say the same for us.

[Army Air Corps]

Prayers and good wishes for our cousins to the north.

[The South Texan]

Do the Liberals/Socialists/Commies in Canada have ACORN to help commit fraud like the Democrats/Liberals/Socialists/Commies do here in the States?

[Army Air Corps]

On second thought, that might give them the idea for a mobile voting unit so they don’t have to budge.

Sssshhhh! Don't give the libs/commies down here any ideas! ;-)

[Nextrush]

Maybe a couple days of rising stocks will raise the tide for Harper.

This election campaign was mucked up by the economic news.

He may end up still having a minority government.

The Left is split four ways so I have no doubt the Tories will end up with the most seats.

[cookcounty]

Hey, look at that map! BC is RED!

[cookcounty]

Go Harper!!!

This guy is like the poor little Dutch kid with his thumb in the dike. He even looks like a little Dutch kid.

[M203M4]

Apparently everyone voting in Canada needs to show photo ID and proof of address to register (if they did not register when paying taxes), and then photo ID at the polling station.

[cookcounty]

"Sometimes I honestly wish we had a qusi-parliamentary system here."

Me, too. I'm conservative, but I nonetheless would love to see an abolition (by constitutional amendment, of course) of the electoral college, and there are some things about the parliamentary system that are excellent.

[Army Air Corps]

Sounds like a decent system. ACORN would hate it.

[Squawk 8888]

Scenic Parkway is low-displacement motorbike heaven. I love going in through Lundy’s Lane, up the Parkway past the whirlpool, through the old battlefields then lunch in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

[Zeppelin]

Just this summer, the girlfriend and I went to Niagara for our first time...beautiful. And the drive up to Niagara-on-the-Lake...wow. We toured a vineyard up there too.

[JudyinCanada]

Oops - sorry. Where was my head? :^)

[Natchez Hawk]

Forgive my ignorance, are the Conservatives the only party on the right?

I know there use to be a libertarian/conservative party based largely in the West, am I correct that they folded into the Conservatives?

[ponygirl]

I wish we could get rid of exit polling here. If I get asked by an exit poller, I’m going to tell them I wrote in Mitt Romney.

[timsbella]

Thanks, fanfan. My fingers are crossed until they’re blue — conservative, tory type blue. I am praying for Harper (and that Khan can hold on to his cross-the-floor seat).

Multiple prayers going up. Is a majority too much to ask this time???

[timsbella]

Welcome and do get your citizenship. My (American) husband was tickled at the though he gets to vote twice in three weeks. He was surprised our ballots don’t have the prime minister’s name on them, though. He kept asking questions from behind the cardboard screen ;)

[fanfan]

Forgive my ignorance, are the Conservatives the only party on the right?

Yes.

I know there use to be a libertarian/conservative party based largely in the West, am I correct that they folded into the Conservatives?

Yes. They were the Reform Party, and then became the Canadian Alliance, and then merged with the Progressive Conservatives to make the Conservative Party of Canada we have now.

[fanfan]

LOL.

I took an informal exit poll of my husband and my self.

Extrapolating those results, it looks like a Harper landslide.

[fanfan]

Is a majority too much to ask this time???

Not at all, FRiend.

[proud American in Canada]

He kept asking questions from behind the cardboard screen

LOL! And thank you for the welcome. :)

It is an interesting fall, with two elections.

[null and void]

It is an interesting fall, with two elections.

New Zealand's is the 8th.

Of course that's this spring there...

[DieHard the Hunter]

> New Zealand’s is the 8th.

(grin!) Auntie Helen’s going DOWN.

[fanfan]

I didn’t know that. Thanks Nully.

Good luck on the 8th, DieHard!

[null and void]

I thought she did...