Dion, “I am aware I have a strong French accent, but I am convinced I speak the truth better in French or English than Mr. Harper.”
May is talking about PR, and said Harper had once written in support of it.
She looks tired, it is late after all.
She is right, the “one issue party” myth has died tonight. Suck on it spin doctors!
She feels the votes will roll in.
She “will be an elected member of Parliament”
“It’s important to challenge someone who says something that is blatantly untrue.” “Of course I won! Weren’t you there?”
Newman says she’s the only one not to roll play a debate before hand.
Duceppe is pleased he forced Harper to answer some questions directly. A little piece of Harper must have died inside when he had to answer.
“stephen_taylor Elizabeth May has been very impressive during this debate ” - from Twitter
9:29 Layton is called on his “quips”, responds with a quip about Harper not releasing his platform. The media is being unequally tough on Layton who did well, but not as well as Dion or May. They rightly jumped on him for opposing May’s inclusion. Will they ask Harper the same to be fair? No!
Don Newman noticed the reporters jumped down Layton’s throat.
Harper is playing on stock market fear!
Harper thinks all of the time was spent attacking him. Would have been less time spent on that if he wasn’t so wrong, so often.
Con pundit on CPAC thinks May is anti electoral reform. Can only talk about Liberal platform because there isn’t a plan from the Conservatives!
Con caller from Marimachi thinks if there aren’t Albertan tar sands, there will be no place for Atlantic Canadians to work. Nice eh?
Green caller happy with May’s participation and performance.
9:49 - “jacklayton The only leader who can defeat Stephen Harper” - Twitter tweet from a delusional Jack Layton. Perhaps he just can’t do math? Most likely he is trying to spin. Wonder why Canadians don’t trust politicians? Look at Jack Layton.
CPAC showed Harper getting nailed on the economy.
Nanos is right, after 3 days this debate will sway thinking Canadians, and it will sway them away from the Conservatives.
9:54 Con caller tired of hearing about Howard and the sweater image.
The debate deadblogged - I feel like a debate blogging zombie!
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themusicgod1 | 03-Oct-08 at 4:38 am | Permalink
My postmortem.
themusicgod1 | 03-Oct-08 at 4:48 am | Permalink
I don’t call everywhere in Saskatchewan, but I do call around 15 ridings, some not really easy to suspect as NDP carriable ridings; Jack Layton is right; he could be elected Prime Minister in today’s climate—but ONLY if the “undecideds” and the “I haven’t been following politics, but I’ll vote” crowd vote for him. There are a *lot* of them. Probably about as many people who voted harper in last election, easy. Add existing NDP supporters to this and you may very well have a Layton PM. However, that’s only if Canadians decide, for whatever reason, on election day, that Layton is the leader which he claims he will be.
Don’t believe the polls in the paper/polling companies. They have the same biases that I have, as telephone research, but have a profit motive which blinds them to select bits of information, and chances are if you’re hearing about it, it’s only when the conservatives/liberals/money masters/whatever are doing good.
However may nothing in this post be a recommendation to vote for the NDP. I do think me & saskboy should be voting NDP, but only because I haven’t seen any reason for us to not do so.
Saskboy | 03-Oct-08 at 9:14 am | Permalink
I think Layton’s record on democratic reform is one reason not to vote for him.
I’m going to investigate Democratic Space’s prediction again for Wascana. Last I looked, they didn’t think it was close enough for Ralph to lose. We could probably each vote for the leader/candidate we like best. I spoke with George Wooldridge, with an interview going up on my blog too in video form for you to see, and he seems like a good guy and is even our age.
themusicgod1 | 04-Oct-08 at 8:00 pm | Permalink
Well, what exactly would you like insofar as proportional representation, and how do the greens compare to this? I remember at beer with weir back in what, ‘04 I asked him about it — the NDP were pushing for it back then — but it seemed so .. perhipheral to me at the time. Even as a supporter of a small party(the Action party). it seemed like a long term thing at best, and at worst in the short term it could very well mean a fundamental change away from the unacountable-but-usually-responsible-senate system that Canada has done at least okay with
Saskboy | 05-Oct-08 at 8:11 pm | Permalink
I don’t think I or the party has a strong opinion on the type of PR, just so long as the system stops completely shutting out alternative voices, and electing false majorities.
themusicgod1 | 06-Oct-08 at 10:50 pm | Permalink
FYI I think Don Mitchell is campaigning on proportional representation as one of his 3 or so main issues. Can’t say the same for stephen moore, but it’s still apparently at least somewhat of an NDP priority.