My predictions for this election

[lordshipmayhem]

Offered for $free, as that's precisely what they're worth. You can take that to the bank. The tellers haven't had much to laugh at for awhile.

1) It will finally be over. No more in-depth analysis of each party's marketing efforts (as if they were any different from the marketing of canned soup - marketing is marketing, it's all spin, and everyone sees through it by now). And there was great rejoicing. Yay.

2) Another Harper minority. I think he'll get more seats than before the election call, but not enough for an absolute majority.

3) The other parties will try to create a coalition government, but the Bloc will demand too much to participate for the Liberals to stomach, and the result will be a failure.

4) The Greens might get one or two seats.

5) The country will be basically split: NDP in parts of BC and Saskatchewan (and maybe Windsor and Oshawa), the Liberals in Toronto and the Maritimes, the Blocheads in Quebec's Francophone ridings, and the Tories in BC, Alberta and the 905 region. Sort of like the American Red vs. Blue, only with lots more pretty little colours representing lots less unity.

Comments

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

I hope the Greens get a couple seats -- I've only followed things up north on a loose basis but it seems like Green Party - Canada has really benefited from having Lizzie May as their leader. Obviously the two-party duopoly here makes it harder for the Greens but the US Greens would do well to have someone like May as their public face.

Just hinking out loud, but I'm wondering if it would make more sense for the NDP to join forces with the Libs or for them to merge with the Greens.

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

The Liberals are an old line, fairly elitist party. They include in their supporters lots of business heavyweights, especially from Toronto.

The NDP are much more blue-collar, especially union blue-collar. They include in their planks nationalizing at least one bank and tons of protectionism - US and other goods and services would find themselves unwanted in Canada.

In other words, they're not as alike as all that. A merger would not go down well with either party's core long-term support.

The Greens here are still pretty much unknown territory: they haven't had a successful candidate for dogcatcher, let alone provincial politics. You generally start with provincial before going Federal, with a few exceptions. I don't know of our Greens tilt right (using free-market mechanisms, or "carrots" to encourage us to consume less) or left (using the "stick" approach of government regulations).

[fpelayo.livejournal.com]

No hope for the Greens this year:

http://www.ctv.ca/mini/election2008/electionResults.html

So still a Rightie minority but the Cons got a bit stronger and the Libs are much weaker. And apparently voter turnout for tonight was only 58%... ¬_¬;

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

LOL GREENZFAIL~

And holy crap, 58%!? You guys are making the US look GOOD! O_O

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

See, the Libs and the NDP basically sound like the two wings of the Democratic party -- some corporate interests and some big union action. I can see why they wouldn't work together up north, though -- it's one thing to evolve into a two-wing party; it's quite another to try and join two disparate groups together.

Greens are basically leftist and very much a unionist party, so I would think a "union" (har!) witht he NDP would be feasible. Greens aren't averse to socialistic tendencies but they generally prefer a more local, decentralized approach to business than the traditional socialist/big govt. models.