Obligatory Election Post

[nfotxn]

I voted.

Last July. And the Liberal party won even though the polls predicted a conservative majority. Well, that's a half truth. We have a minority government which with the seats of the NDP (Lefty party) or Bloc Québecquois (Francophone party) combined has control of the house.

But yeah, my point is about the polls. They're bullshit. Seriously, people are just like you. They change their mind up until the last minute, many of them. There is still an element of chance here.

But like many others I am strangely optimistic tonight. Combining the technical but not popular win of the GOP last year with the utterly pathetic mismanagement of the most important country in the world will have an effect. How that effect has been most effectively spun in the USA is still largely unknown.

Regardless of outcome the sun will rise tomorrow and the next presidential term will be an interesting one. Canada and the rest of the world is on your side in favour of a democratic process that works and equality for all Americans through inclusion.

Keep the faith and if you haven't voted then hop to it!

Comments

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

You got room for a bunch of us to move in with you if things go wonky tho?

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

You should read my blog more thoroughly.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

It was a joke. Sheesh!

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

That's the problem. :) We haaaates the tricksy Americans when they make jokes.

[tecknow.livejournal.com]

I considered going to graduate school in Canada and possibly emigrating there afterward. While I decided not to do it I have to say, you can't just walk in and set up shop. If I had attempted, and succeeded, in convincing your government that it felt like having me there I would feel no guilt even if getting away from Bush was a major factor in the decision.

There is no shame in doing it, if you can legally get away with it.

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. I voted as early as I could and so did most of the people I know locally. As a friend of mine wrote, "At the very least, even if Bush wins, we Anybody-But-Bush folks did a great job of showing him the door."

[darke.livejournal.com]

I've never put much stock in the polls, truthfully. When you toss around the phrase "Likely voter" as the stock from which your poll is drawn, I can't help but think that it's describe a specific subset of people who are not as transitory as others, thus the polls naturally reflect a specific end. I'm not saying that the folks doing the polls are purposefully skewing them (although some do), just more that in a list of 100 conservatives and 100 liberals, I'm reasonably certain the odds are higher that the 100 random conservatives are still at their same old address/phone number from which the agency obtained it. Maybe I just know a lot of free spirit liberals ;)

As a bit of a tumbleweed myself, I may be hard to track down, but I still vote, so I tend to read such prediction polls with a very large amount of skepticism.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I'd expect nothing less.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

1) I was debating that and extrapolated the date from it's relation to pride and Canada day. I couldn't remember the actual election date but decided it was July 2nd.

2) That's a good point. I guess it'd have been more accurate to state that stats DO work but they're complicated. And for the average citizen I think they tend to be as mis-leading as informative.

[chrisglass.livejournal.com]

Amen, you Canuck.

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Unfortunetely people are so surprinsingly spontaneous, that maybe they may choose a wrong president for their country.

p.s.
it is Québecois, Honey

[trckrfckr.livejournal.com]

i voted today.

five times.

Polling is crap...

[antnycub.livejournal.com]

The polling systems used here are way out of date. First-time voters aren't polled, nor are people who use cell phones. Polling companies only phone people with land lines who have voted in past elections.

A gentleman in our mail room this morning said he hadn't seen lineups so long, and with so many young voters, in decades.