Canada rejects Trump wannabe. Trudeau projected as the winner in today's national elections

[Sluggy77]

23. Polls were dead on...

Hi - long-time lurker and proud Canadian here. Relatively stoked about tonight’s Canadian election - thoughts up here are roughly the same as what’s been expressed in the comments on this thread. Trudeau has had a terrible year but the attack politics and “wanna-be Repub” style of the Conservatives was totally off-setting.

Wanted to point out that the polls before tonight’s election were spot-on... almost down to the percentage. Polls up here aren’t any different from down in the States - they aren’t better run or anything.

Difference is that our elections are still conducted with paper and pencil and leave a paper trail that can be verifiably counted. Very difficult to magically change results to differ from the polls if the elections aren’t being run on mysterious electronic boxes, if you know what I mean.

Granted I’m a Canuck and there’s a lot about Americans I don’t understand.. also I know I’m speaking to the choir here... but the willingness of the USA to sacrifice their election security and remove paper trails from the process has boggled my mind for a really long time...

Anyways - hope you don’t mind my first post being so long... Cheers everyone. It was overall a good result for Canada tonight. Yay!