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arikara

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32. Hi back to you too!

Tue Oct 21, 2014, 10:35 PM

Oct 2014

Last election I had the luxury of voting NDP but the time before because it was going to be too close, myself and at least 20 people I know were forced to vote liberal. And its a good thing because the lib only beat the con by 5 votes. It was to say the least a really good example of how important it is to vote, and to consider your vote carefully.

This time I'll have to see how it plays out, the NDP guy isn't all that effective in many people's opinion and Trudeau is pretty popular. So I'll have to watch closely to pick right because for the sake of Canada, it HAS to be "anybody but Harper".

That in a nutshell is the problem with our first past the post system, that somebody can win and become a dictator with just over 30%. Other countries have run offs and keep voting until a candidate gets over 50% of the vote. I don't believe Harper and very few conservatives would ever win 50% and we would sure have a different more happy, healthy country.

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Thank you. Scuba Oct 2014 #6

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Hi countrymate! LiberalLovinLug Oct 2014 #27

Hi back to you too! arikara Oct 2014 #32

making the electoral exploitation of the suffragists by an unrepresentative and vocally oligarchic MisterP Oct 2014 #20

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