Posted on 06/29/2004 6:06:41 AM PDT by Clive
Mark Steyn's take this morning:
The morning after: You know, I don't feel so bad after all. 135 Liberals plus 19 NDP could prove mighty frustrating for Paul Martin. And my lowballing of NDP seats looks a lot better than all those TV networks declaring they'd "won" 24, 25, 25 or Jack Layton announcing they'd doubled their ridings. Off to write it up for The Western Standard. More later.
Martin didn't plan to wake up with the Bloc in the kingmaker's role in the next House Of Commons. There's not much to crow about; his party got the plurality of seats cause most Canadians preferred sticking with the devil they know and its not exactly a national vote of confidence in the Liberals. They didn't win outright a majority of the popular vote and those Lefties repelled by their corruption and incompetence drifted either to the New Democrats or the Bloc. Sure, the Liberals kept the bulk of seats in Ontario but bottom line, there's no national mandate for the Prime Minister and his party.
Thank goodness for the Electoral College (would you like NYC and LA deciding who is president?)
Belinda Stronoch won her riding.
Should have been Belinda Stronach.
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