Canadian General Election, Live Thread (UPDATE: Conservatives Win!)

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[GreenLanternCorps]

If JimRob, etc. approve this is the Live Thread for the Canadian General Election, on January 23rd, 2005.

We have a while to go before the returns start coming in, but I thought the thread needed to get up and running.

[kajingawd]

4 seats for the Conservatives so far in Newfieland...

[tlj18]

Here's some data to support my statement:

France is facing the problem that dare not speak its name. Though French law prohibits the census from any reference to ethnic background or religion, many demographers estimate that as much as 20-30 per cent of the population under 25 is now Muslim. The streets, the traditional haunt of younger people, now belong to Muslim youths. In France, the phrase "les jeunes" is a politically correct way of referring to young Muslims.

Given current birth rates, it is not impossible that in 25 years France will have a Muslim majority. The consequences are dynamic: is it possible that secular France might become an Islamic state?

Source

[GiveEmDubya]

4! Are you sure?

[AuH2ORepublican]

Heck, even in the old days, how could they stop a Detroit radio station from broadcasting election results throughout Canada?

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

This could be HUGH!

[proud_yank]

Were things looking good in Ont overall? For some reason I thought you were in AB. Lots of blue signs up around here!

[Torie]

It looks like Tories are getting Avalon in Newfoundland.

[GiveEmDubya]

I'm hearing 4 Liberals in NL...someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[tlj18]

You mean "HUGE!" ?

[fanfan]

They're not supposed to.

The idea is that votes in one area are not affected by the vote in another area.

It worked well until the Internet age.

[furquhart]

Nope, you're right.

It sounds like the Conservatives plus one, so far.

[Dane]

4 seats for the Conservatives so far in Newfieland..

That would be a pickup of 2 seats, correct?

[sissyjane]

Old Freeper joke...welcome.

[fanfan]

LOL!

[furquhart]

I'm hearing three - isn't it?

[backhoe]

Thanks- I'd forgotten about him.

FWIW, I just saw this:

"CBC reports:

Lib 4 Con 4 leading / elected

(thanks to bro in PEI)"

on this forum:

http://www.proalberta.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1

Take it with a grain of salt.

[conservative in nyc]

CINyc, can you help with the up dates?

I can't update the GIF file, but I know how to... umm... borrow HTML from websites. In Firefox, hit View-->Page Source (or CTRL-U), cut and paste. In Netscape, copy and paste the page into Netscape Composer. Choose the Source TAB. Copy and Paste (although some Netscape HTML commands won't work on FR).

We umm... borrowed charts from the CBC's website in 2004 in this manner.

[Candor7]

The regional internet radio feeds are available at:

www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html#

[ARA]

They all ready are anti-american... I don't see that changing...

[tlj18]

OK, I'm not familiar with that one. Actually, I've been here for about a year and a half, just under a different name.