It's election day, Canadians - how are you voting?

[Minstrel Boy]

Poll question: It's election day, Canadians - how are you voting?

And, perhaps, why?

[Sticky]

1. Liberal

No Choice. My community is heavily voting for the Regressive Conservative Party. NDP is not viable here.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. What riding are you in? Mackay's?

[Sticky]

6. West-Nova

The riding is mostly farmers who have "always voted conservative".....I tell them the Progressive Conservatives are gone and have been replaced by the Maritime-hating Alliance Party. They just don't get it.

http://www.liberal.ns.ca/default.asp?mn=11.9536.9574.9577

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. Tough riding.

All my wife's Nova Scotian relatives are in Kings-Hants and North Nova. They're mostly Liberals, with a couple of Cons, and the standard NDP black sheep.

[Minstrel Boy]

9. I think the NDP will do surprisingly well in West Nova.

Maybe not enough to win this time, but Arthur Bull has been a very strong candidate. Something to build on.

[Sticky]

11. Arthur Bell is running a great campaign

I was at his headquarters the other day and his volunteers remind me the Howard Dean campaign workers. They're continuously on the phones and internet, or driving around with lawn signs to hand out.

It's funny but his lawn signs are everywhere you look, yet the people who own the lawns have other ideas about who they are voting for. They are a very persistant bunch! LOL

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. OK. Out with it. Who voted Con?

It's not big, and it's not clever, y'know. :evilgrin:

[Minstrel Boy]

3. Lifelong NDPer here.

If I don't count my first vote, cast as a disaffected '70s teen, for a suburban Marxist-Leninist candidate.

I want to see a record haul of New Democrats elected tonight, to be the voice of workers and activists in a minority parliament.

Because dammit, it's time.

http://ndp.ca/ftp/isntittime/isntittime.htm

[iverglas]

14. ditto, and I have the button ;)

And I don't count 1968, when I worked for a Trudeau Liberal - because fortunately I was too young to vote, being 15 at the time.

By the next year when my riding had a provincial by-election, I'd seen the light. Unfortunately, I was blinded by it when we miraculously won that one, and it was years before I realized that how hard I/we worked really wasn't the determining factor in how it came out.

So are you in for the count?

I don't want to see any of my fellow New Democrats hanging around here tonight when they should be inside scrutineering or out on the street pulling votes, that's for damned sure!

[whistle]

5. I just cast a vote by proxy for my sister who lives in Canada...

...we spoke by phone this past weekend and she told me she and my brother-in-law would both be voting liberal. She has had reservations though because the liberal prime minister who took Cretian's place has been really "sucking up to Bush" (her words). But, she still thinks the liberal party will be best for Canada.

[SidDithers]

7. Liberal....

I've waffled between NDP and Liberal, but Oakville has NO chance to go NDP.

Sid

[zx22778a]

10. NDP - Oshawa is looking to be a real

three way horserace. In the past it's been NDP with Ed Broadbent as the candidate and it could be again with Syd Ryan. The Liberal incumbent is not running this time.

[Hand]

12. NDP--It's a slam dunk in my riding...

...which makes it a lot easier. Halifax is Alexa McDonough's riding. If I were elsewhere, I might have to think twice.

:hi:

[gula]

13. I am sooo disappointed

For the first time ever I actually wanted to vote for a candidate (Omar Aktouf) rather than against the other only to just find out that my riding boundaries have been changed and that I am actually in Duceppe's riding.

So my $1.75 will go to the greens.

[iverglas]

15. I hope

that the paucity of responses means that my fellow Canadians are out doing their duty for the NDP ... or holding their noses and voting Liberal if that's the best option.

Hey, I don't go on duty until 5, so I'm not being a pot. ;)