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Originally Posted by dinosaur
Christy Clark takes the stage to give victory speech. First comment "well, that was easy."
UUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! And she wonders why people don't like her.
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In complete fairness, I took it as sarcasm.
The Liberal campaign, clearly, was not easy, and the win quite remarkable. It was the NDP's election to lose, and man, did they ever lose it.
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Originally Posted by iEatClams
also, people who voted green also took away votes from the NDP. there are a few ridings (about 4 or so), where if you took just half of the Green party votes and added those totals to the NDP vote, the NDP would have won those ridings.
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No kidding. The left-wing vote is more divided than the right-wing vote in Canada, on Provincial and Federal levels, so that's always the case. It's not a perfect, but it's still a lot better than a two party system.