Canada's Federal Election 2015: The Official Thread

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Okay, so in addition to Dutch disease and subsidies, we'll just add 'hearing' to the list on your vocabulary curriculum.
 
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petros said:
I doubt anyone could understand a Molly burnout like yourself.
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JLM said:
I've been getting emails from the Dippers, mind you I did send the local Dipper (along with all the local candidates) an email. There is a possibility that our local Dipper may be the best of 4 bad choices. Haven't heard from anyone else yet. From what I can gather local P.C. candidate isn't too ambitious.
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Well, when the time comes, I'll likely vote Indie or at least for someone who isn't a party hack or a corporate puppet. Not many choices around for folks like that, though, so I may just leave the card blank. Even the blank ones are counted.

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Sorry?

What?

I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THE SWEARING


Election 2015: May, Trudeau, and Mulcair images improve, Harper negatives rise. | Abacus Data

Negative feelings about Stephen Harper are on the rise. Mr. Harper’s best ratings in the last 18 months were last December, when 34% were positive and 38% were negative towards the Conservative leader. Since then, his negatives are up 9 points to 47%, the highest level since March 2014.

Tom Mulcair’s ratings had been stable until the spring of this year. Since May, his positives have risen from 27% to 41% while his negatives have stayed low.

For Justin Trudeau, the news is also good. His positives had been drifting down over several months, but have spiked back upwards by 5 points this month to 35%.

Elizabeth May’s ratings have increased slightly from last month from 17% positive to 25% positive.

Leader Images

In this study we asked respondents to rate the leaders on a 10-point scale across a dozen dimensions.

The results show that:

• Both Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau score more positively than Mr. Harper on 8 of the 12 dimensions: Principled, ethical, honest, accountable, good ideas, good heart, understands people like you, interesting.

• Mr. Harper leads the other leaders on two dimensions: tough, and ready to be Prime Minister.

• All three leaders score almost equally well for being smart.

• Mr. Mulcair scores better than Mr. Trudeau for being tough, while Mr. Trudeau gets higher scores than Mr. Mulcair for having “a good heart” and being interesting.

• Mr. Harper’s best scores are for being smart, tough, and ready to be PM. His scores are much lower for being honest, accountable, and understanding people like you

Election 2015: May, Trudeau, and Mulcair images improve, Harper negatives rise. | Abacus Data
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uhuh Before Harpy got in, he was seen as "Principled, ethical, honest, accountable, good ideas, good heart, understands people like you", too. After all, he was trying to get elected. Politicians APPEAR to be all fuzzywuzzy, smart, principled, etc. before elections.
Thanks for the laugh. =)

JLM said:
It's all pie in the sky, Oct. 19 is the real test, until then it's all bull sh*t!
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hehe It's all BS and just a show anyways and politicians are mostly just puppets.
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"..... that this is a time when corporations have taken over the basic process of governing." - J K Galbraith
 
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Nope. I don't know any that are "evil". They are greedy by and large, though. Few put people ahead of profit. And they will do anything short of outright murder to maximize profits and they have a huge supply of tools which which to do that.
If you think they're in biz because of concern for consumers, you need to wake up from lalaland.
 
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AnnaG said:
hehe It's all BS and just a show anyways and politicians are mostly just puppets.
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"..... that this is a time when corporations have taken over the basic process of governing." - J K Galbraith
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Yup!
 
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AnnaG said:
Well, when the time comes, I'll likely vote Indie or at least for someone who isn't a party hack or a corporate puppet. Not many choices around for folks like that, though, so I may just leave the card blank. Even the blank ones are counted.

uhuh Before Harpy got in, he was seen as "Principled, ethical, honest, accountable, good ideas, good heart, understands people like you", too. After all, he was trying to get elected. Politicians APPEAR to be all fuzzywuzzy, smart, principled, etc. before elections.
Thanks for the laugh. =)

hehe It's all BS and just a show anyways and politicians are mostly just puppets.
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"..... that this is a time when corporations have taken over the basic process of governing." - J K Galbraith
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During the past two or three days I've been getting appeals from the Dippers to just send them $5! Why would I do that??:)
 
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