we are having all kinds of anxiety about Stephen Harper - bad bad right wing scary bastard. Because the Liberals are (rightly) out of favour, the Conservatives have a damn good chance. So the whole strategic voting thing has raised is ugly head. I'm voting NDP cause A: I don't believe in strategic voting...did it once, never again and B: the candidate in my riding is Olivia Chow who I've known for years, she's the best urban advocate I've ever seen in politics, and happens to be the wife of the fedral leader of the NDP, Jack Layton, who is a loose cannon and needs her for ballast. If Stephen Harper wins we are f**ked. Ontario (my province) is just coming off a Conservative regime. They wiped out the social programs in their first month or so of office, and now we've grown accustomed to the sad state of affairs and won't get them back. If that happens on the federal level we stand to lose the things that make Michael Moore love us.
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- sally mckay 6-29-2004 1:52 am