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The Final Four
Somewhat fittingly, three NDPers went down to defeat in the quarter-finals and the final 4 are set:A 19th Century Conservative who lived in John A’s shadow.A successful Liberal Premier who didn’t want the top job.A grass roots reformer who was booted as party leader for Stockwell Day.And the underwear salesman who couldn’t catch a football. […]
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This Week in the Liberal Party
–Liberal.ca has a make-over and, I must say, I think the new site is a big improvement. -After talking to some people who were at a Bob Rae event in Edmonton last night, I’d be willing to put down any amount of money that Anne McLellan will be joining the Rae team once her work […]
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Leadership Prediction Project
I’m working on a post to try and gauge where the leadership candidates are at in terms of support province by province. I’ve got the news stories, wikipedia endorsements, fundraising numbers, etc, and have chatted around to people I know on different campaigns. But the more information, the better so anyone who wants to send […]
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In The News
1. Vic Toews is proposing to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10. I’m surprised he hasn’t proposed raising it to 55 so that he can get that nasty charge for breaking provincial Election Finance Laws off his record. As for the proposal itself, I’m willing to bet Joe Volpe sends out a press […]
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Call Me Maurizio
Maurizio Bevilacqua becomes the first candidate to drop out of the Liberal leadership race, no doubt for financial reasons. I’ve always been very impressed with Maurizio and he was certainly among the best 3 or 4 candidates in this race, in my opinion. He’s certainly a future Finance Minister and, one would imagine, this may […]
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What If Politics: Manning versus Romanow
While no one has cracked 60% in round 2 voting, the closest race appears to be the political spectrum spanning matchup of Preston Manning versus Roy Romanow (a mere 20 vote gap at last check). Here’s my profile of the matchup: Preston Manning (2) OK. Everyone together now: “Refoooooooooooorm!” That felt good. While there are […]
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TGIF Reading
For anyone looking to kill some time at work, here are a few posts and stories to check out: 1. In the best named blog since “Buckets of Grewal“, a long time reader of this blog has launched “Any Idiot Can Have A Blog“. I’m not sure I agree with all points in his mission […]
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Vote Out Anders…Part 82
This interesting message was sent my way: The Calgary West Federal nomination date is Saturday September 2, 2006. If you wish to vote in the nomination you must be a resident of Calgary West and have a membership by THIS Friday August 11. Information regarding memberships can be found at www.conservative.ca or to directly purchase […]
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The Elite Eight
Greatest Prime Minister We Never Had – Round 2 Matchup 1 bio Robert Stanfield bio Peter Lougheed Matchup 2 bio George Etienne Cartier bio Tommy Douglas Matchup 3 bio Preston Manning bio Roy Romanow Matchup 4 bio Frank McKenna bio Ed Broadbent (view results) The second round is set. You can see the full first […]
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Joementum?
It looks like it’s gonna be a nail biter in Connecticut: Precincts Reporting: 76.87% # votes %Lieberman (101,818) 48.24Lamont (109,239) 51.76UPDATE: Lamont wins! But Liberman to run as an independent (where he will, one imagines, win). With close to 300,000 people voting in this primary, I think this only further illustrates how the Primary system […]