No problem. I understand. It’s a tough time for everyone.
I’m impressed how you’ve managed to wrap yourself in indignation and yet apparently feel no need to retract your statement.
Graciously accepting an apology is ‘wrapping myself in indignation’?
Yes. Obviously. :rolleyes:
Calm down and cut out the personal sniping.
RickJay
Moderator
This would only matter if you could demonstrate
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That turnout out West actually goes down by a significant amount (presumably, all of it in the last hour or three of voting) if poll reports come out of the East, and
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That not only did turnout go down, but it specifically goes down only with Conservative voters.
Point 1 is unsupported by evidence. Point 2 is unsupported by either evidence or common sense.
But fundamentally, the accusation is baseless since the blackout removal took place while Stephen Harper was PM.
My recollection of the change to allow reporting was that it was more just recognition of the fact that in days of online everything it was pointless to try to prevent the broadcast of results in parts of the country. That is of course becoming ever more true. How exactly would you prevent a BCer from finding out early results from Nova Scotia online?
Also, it’s patronizing as hell.
I just got back from voting. Good turnout at the poll.
Hereabouts, polls will be open for another hour and twenty minutes, but I’m watching the election returns from the Atlantic Provinces on CTV News. I think Gorsnak nailed it–in the days of “online everything,” a blackout wouldn’t do any good.
Yeah, that kinda reminds me of the old days where they wouldn’t report Olympic results if they were being held in a time zone far away from North America.
Looks like the Liberals are doing well in the Atlantic. No surprise, given they swept in 2015.
While I was driving home I saw the Scheer bus drive by, presumably to their local HQ.
Liberals were bound to drop by some in the Atlantic provinces. It looks like an NDP and Bloc shift in Quebec.
Did you see if there was anyone underneath it?
Some years ago I was so enthusiastic that I voted in the advance poll. But tonight I was sitting around in my bathrobe with a glass of rum and pretty much resigned to not voting because this riding is so solidly conservative that it wouldn’t make a difference. But I’ve always voted before, everywhere I’ve lived, and the guilt kept nagging me until I finally got dressed and went down to the school where the polling stations were set up.
I was glad I did. The experience is always so friendly and collegial. There were actually short lines for some of the voting areas (not sure how they’re subdivided) but my voting booth had no one else there, so it was in and out with lots of thank-yous and good-nights. Glad I did my civic duty. The guilt would have nagged me until the next election!
It took me three minutes to arrive, vote and leave. Three people greeted me “Hello/Bonjour”, which I always like; but don’t hear very often in these anglophone parts.
The preliminaries, which do not fully reflect Conservative Western Canada, imply the NDP has had a tough night, which plays into Liberal hands. People seem to like Singh more than his party? Might even be a scant majority.
Liberals win government. I feel relief from this result.
It was friendly and simple as usual to vote here. Always good to see and talk to other voters at the polling stations.
Liberals didn’t get hurt much in Maritimes and Quebec, and are doing very well in Ontario. Looks like a Liberal minority unless they can sweep BC and get pickups elsewhere.
Well, CBC called the election for the Liberals before the polls closed in BC. Looking like a liberal minority. It seems to me that they might have to form a coalition with the Bloc, unless they get close enough to a majority that the NDP can do it for them. That ought to be exciting out west.