Election Round-up

[bcholmes]

Olivia won. Peggy lost (but Gerard is not a bad person to lose to).

Linda won!?! A dab of orange in a sea of blue? Rock on.

But 143 ridings still want the little baby Jesus to weep.

Comments

[futabachan.livejournal.com]

Go! Go! Status quo! It's the only quo we know!

Sad about Peggy, but it'd be nifty-keen if Gerard won the upcoming Liberal leadership struggle....

[lakme.livejournal.com]

I know, I want to weep. I actually voted for the orange this time around; I haven't in the past because our riding's candidate was just such a....blithering idiot, and I couldn't bring myself to vote for him. (Seriously, my husband ran into him once on the street....holding his pant legs and *skipping* through puddles. That tore it.)

On the plus side, I did talk my neighbour into voting for the first time in the five years she has been eligible to do so :)

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

rosefox told me you'd namechecked Linda, so I HAD to come check it out. *g*

I am strutting around like a peacock today. We started working on her campaign in May of 2005!!!

-J

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. Amazing accomplishment.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

:-D Thank you!

-J

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I heard briefly on the radio here that the government was returned - is that true?

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Sadly, yes. The good news is that the Conservatives were hoping for a majority government, but didn't get it. But they did retain their minority government, with a few extra seats on top.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Then at least they'll have to log-roll for what they want.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling it will be Iggy or Rae, or maybe Justin Trudeau.

143 is small enough he can't poach enough MPs to put together a majority, but large enough that he could pull a Joe Clark. Similar to Bush's pronouncement in 2004 that he had a mandate, that he earned his political capital and that he intended to use it. Taking note of a mandate that doesn't really exist is a very dangerous thing.