First up is the election of NDP Linda Duncan in an area that contains the U of A, and where she was, years ago, a professor.
In the 2006 election she was close with 32.5% of the vote, notice that the Liberals had 17.8% and the Greens had 6%:
Same thing in 2011, this time both the Liberals and the Greens ran students to make sure that Duncan won again.....but there was no collusion?? HA!
This is the trend that is happening in our elections. Think I'm wrong? Let's look at the Calgary by-election. In 2006, the Liberals had 19.2% of the vote and the NDP had 13.3%.
In 2008, the Liberals and Greens lost a percentage of their votes, but the NDP increased their vote percentage:
In 2011, the Conservatives and Greens increased their vote percentage, while the Liberals and NDP lost votes.
Now look at the by-election results:
The NDP vote which was consistently between 16 to 13% of the vote suddenly decreases to 4%? Funny how all those NDP votes disappeared to the Liberals. Was it pay back for all the Liberals voting for NDP Duncan in Edmonton? Did the NDP voters abandon their own party to try and get a Liberal elected, just like the Liberals abandoned their party to vote NDP for Duncan?
What about the Green's increase in voters? As an Alberta Conservative, when asked by all those polling companies who I would vote for as a second choice, I always tell them the Greens, and I suspect that a lot of Conservatives feel that way too, not because they like the Greens, but because there is no other party I would vote for except the Conservatives. Obviously, the lefties have no such loyalty to their own parties.
I remember in the last provincial election some young Liberal lads, who were so sure that their candidate was going to win, and then the Liberal vote collapsed. They were dumbfounded when they realized that the Liberals had voted for the PC candidate instead, and they wonder why the Liberals are losing voters? No loyalty, no "Canadian values", means no Liberal support. They are doing it to themselves.
Crockatt did a great job of fighting off the coalition, but Conservatives need to be aware of what the lefties are doing and will continue to do, to get rid of as many Conservative MP's as they can.
It's legal, but it's dishonest to their own candidates and supporters. Keep that up, and no quality candidates will be willing to put their names forward, like Carney.
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Justin Trudeau won his riding by only 1.4% (38.4) more than Joan Crockatt won hers.
To put that in 'progressive speak' 62.6% voted against Trudeau
Marc Garneau won his riding with 37.2%
Neither Bob Rae nor Lizzy May cracked the 50% mark either.
By 'progressive' standards, none of the above are legitimate winners.
PMSH won his riding with 75.08%
If you add all the votes in the 3 by-elections, the CPC got about 34% and the next "closest" was the NDP at about 24%, Greens at 21% and the Liberals at 20%. Looks like a pretty good victory to me!!
I agree "progressives" strategically vote; one only has to look at the last provincial election to see that (how about that projected 3 billion dollar deficit eh?). I'm a card carrying Conservative Party member and I lived in Jaffer's riding in 2008. Had the guy actually showed up he might have won; but he took the electorate for granted and pulled some serious gaffes during his tenure (remember a staffer pretending to be him for a radio interview?). Duncan simply out worked him. Yeah she had all those pliable and impressionable university kids on her side but she did get her message out and people saw her. Not Jaffer, he was a ghost. Oh and who can forget the shenanigans he pulled after he lost? Nobody could find the guy! I’ll never forget the day of the vote. As soon as I saw the line-up of kids and aging hippies sporting those goofy sock monkey hats and mittens with strings at the polling station, I knew we were doomed. If we want to beat Linda Duncan we need to field candidates with personal integrity. Jaffer was not that candidate.
Lizzy May's Greens battled VERY hard against the NDP in Victoria and the Liberals in Calgary.... now she wants to meet them to hammer out a co-operation deal.
Thing is, they did not 'split the vote' in the by elections.
Each party presented a different platform to the electorate, not the same.
The only party difference they all share is that they are not Conservatives, but some of their platforms sure do have Conservative-like components.
Taking away that choice of any one party will suppress voter turnout (as it did in Calgary), is glaringly undemocratic and trying to hammer out a deal as non-Conservatives will confuse Canadians as to what they are voting for.
The CPC will be the benefactor of such a ridiculous arrangement.
Are you not dodging the issue that one of the main reasons the Liberals did so well, was that Crockatt is a WRP supporter and if it wasn't for the Liberal foot in mouth disease a normally strong Conservative riding could of been lost. The NDP were toast after Thomas Mulcair's Oilsand comments and what I understand the Green vote were Conservatives that wouldn't vote for Crockatt or the Liberals. The then there is the fact that less then 30% voted. The spit between the WRP and Conservatives in Alberta has too be mended or seats could lost in Alberta to those left wing idiots
Are you not dodging the issue that one of the main reasons the Liberals did so well, was that Crockatt is a WRP supporter and if it wasn't for the Liberal foot in mouth disease a normally strong Conservative riding could of been lost. The NDP were toast after Thomas Mulcair's Oilsand comments and what I understand the Green vote were Conservatives that wouldn't vote for Crockatt or the Liberals. The then there is the fact that less then 30% voted. The spit between the WRP and Conservatives in Alberta has too be mended or seats could lost in Alberta to those left wing idiots
As David Akin reports, by elections are hard on the ruling party, usually they lose 2 out of 3. Mulcair won his seat in a by.
The CPC government of Stephen Harper has NEVER lost a seat in by elections.
Ms Crockatt did a terrific job of keeping this inner city, heavy on the progressive, seat.
The PC/WR rift will be healed by 2015.
Great comments everyone. We need to make sure we have a solid ground game to fight the left, on our own terms, not theirs.
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