NDP-Liberal merge, for or against?

[Very_Boring_Name]

Poll question: NDP-Liberal merge, for or against?

For all the flak I give the NDP around here, I would love to see a merge. I might even support mustache man in a leadership convention. It would certainly lock out the Harper brand of conservativism for a very long time.

[Kall]

1. I don't want to see a merger.

I do want to see electoral reform and run-off voting, and with a good showing by the NDP we're likely to see it given proper due.

[Very_Boring_Name]

2. I don't get why the liberals haven't pushed for run off voting

Historically, they'd have benefited the most from it.

[iverglas]

5. And that is exactly why

I will never support run-off voting (preferential ballot).

I don't want my second choice. I want my first choice -- at least some minimally fair representation of it.

Proportional representation or fight! ;)


edit -- in a more serious vein: the preferential ballot would simply, ultimately, be the death of third parties. If I wanted an oligarchy, an entrenched two-party system, I'd move south. Or we may as well have let them have 54-40 and not bothered fighting ...

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. The only way I'd be for it...

... is if the progressive faction had the upper hand in the arrangement. Otherwise, we'd just end up with two conservative parties again and the Dippers would have to split off again.

[iverglas]

4. And the Liberals are saying ...

Please will you be our spouse? please?

... Let us hear you say those several little words:

"With all my worldly votes I thee endow."

Speaking from the NDP side, I say: why buy the goat when you can get the votes for free?


My vote: No, duh. ;)

[Posteritatis]

6. I wouldn't mind a coalition; I would mind a merge. (nt)