A few thoughts:
1) Please, please, please stop those of you making the comments that "Harper just wasted $300 million on a federal election that returned the exact same result." I have a feeling a good number of incumbent MPs that were turfed would disagree with you, not to mention those who have a new representative for them. Furthermore, if Harper was able to predict the election prior to the votes being counted, he should have a different job. And finally, the fact that no party other than the Bloc (and MAYBE the NDP) is fully happy today should be proof enough that the landscape has been altered.
2) And the landscape has been altered. The Liberals have taken one in the teeth, with shockingly low popular vote numbers, and bad (and surprising) losses around the country. There was nary a riding that was a positive surprise for them (never a good thing). The Greens have been emphatically declared "irrelevant". The NDP has put together yet another "good" result, but I wonder if Layton had actually gone after Dion (his real competition) instead of Harper (almost nobody actually chooses between NDP and CPC), if we could be seeing a NDP Official Opposition today. The Bloc will be happy, although I continue to wonder what purpose their party actually does play in the Canadian political spectrum. And the Conservatives will be mixed - happy they won more seats, disappointed they missed the majority, happy they broke through in Ontario, disappointed they failed to break through in Quebec and Toronto.
3) Speaking of Toronto, I'm still baffled that (apart from Layton and Chow) it always goes straight red.
4) Elizabeth May - why did you sell out the Greens and tell them to strategically vote Liberal in certain spots? Like Layton, if you had gone after the Liberals instead, you could REPLACE them, rather than simply be an afterthought. This election should signal the end of Ms. May's political career.
5) Same for Dion. Although I am still surprised that the Liberals seem to feel their choice is either Rae or Iggy. In the time we are in where the economy is a big deal, I have a feeling that the CPC war room would eat Rae for dinner.
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I think the Green-Liberal deal was a lot worse for Dion than May. He gave valuable exposure to someone who ended up earning votes that he had hoped to win. As for May, the Green party at this point seems to be little more than a platform for Elizabeth May's promotion, for her to use as she pleases. On that account, her campaign was a success although I'm not sure what good it did.
Yeah, Toronto The Red is as it always was. We registered and voted here in Mississauga but I wasn't surprised at all that our riding went to the Libs...
Seeing the Cons make gains was fun but kinda pointless since it just resulted in the same ol' same ol'. I don't mind the election since it lasted a surprising length of time already, I was just hoping for a majority this time round...
Hardly pointless. Did you read the post? :)
And yeah, May did do surprisingly well for herself and her public persona...but that's about all, folks.
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