Why did the conservatives lose so badly?
Election patterns are cyclical, but our friends from the North are better able to answer this question than I am. :)
Because LIVs wanted "change". Sound familiar?
people were pissed at Harper, or so i was told...
i was at the Indianapolis 500 this year with a tour group which including a couple from Calgary...one morning over breakfast we started talking about politics- this couple were real conservatives and told me Calgary- the Canadian equivalent of Texas, had elected a straight out socialist a few months earlier and they were both pissed and concerned...
i’m not sure if it was an election for just Calgary or the entire province but the writing was on the wall..
Because LIVs wanted "change". Sound familiar?
- the evil media joined the libs in creating Harper Derangement Syndrome
- they used the same play book as B. Hussein - change, shovel ready jobs, spend, spend, spend and expand government jobs and debt
- bring in loads of revenue by legalizing the sale of pot and taxing it (so, basically the government getting rich by selling drugs)
- many more younger voters, raised in a socialist school system and listening to socialist media, Hollywood, music industry, etc.
Now we wait for Trudeau to mount his unicorn and ride into power sprinkling fairy dust all around, fixing all of the problems, and singing kumbaya. At least Obama is no longer the biggest buffoon on the world stage. Putin is laughing and Iran is plotting.
Do I sound ticked? lol
I think the CPC were are surprised as everyone else. Canadians have a real difficulty with independent thought. Once the media and the other parties framed Harper as a “dictator” and “divisive”, Canadians just clung to those headlines. Ask most people “how was he divisive, they really could not elaborate.
More specifically he held to the base but no more. The 8% or so he picked up last time fled to the Liberals. It is real mystery as Trudeau is not your average Canadian, and has little more to bring to the party than nice hair.
Part of the problem was that the media was actively campaigning for the Liberals (the journalist’s union was a registered third-party participant).