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I don't want to get hopeful yet. I still think it'll be an uphill battle to keep Poilievre out of the PM's office. I'd want to see some consistent polling shifts across multiple sources before having any real hope.
That said, even if this as a vast overestimation of the Liberals' reversing fortunes, it could still be enough to eke out a small victory. Given how dire the polling was before Christmas, just holding the Conservatives to the slimmest of majorities could be considered a win of sorts
I don’t put much stock in EKOS personally, so I’m waiting for additional polls too.
That polling shift is intense. People really were just completely tired of Trudeau (myself included...).
I'm sure a week of Trump hasn't helped Conservatives, either.
Maybe if they said they'd fight for Canadians, but so far all they've done is said they won't use our best bargaining chips in public because it hurts their friends in the oil lobby.
Why should any Canadian support them?
How pathetic is it to respond to political difficulties by ramping up your persecution of trans people? I can't think of a lower move, except perhaps supporting any politician who does this.
Distractions. Distractions, distractions, distractions.
That's the whole conservative game on both sides of the border.
Get a boogeyman, focus your populace on the boogeyman while you do backdoor deals to increase you and your friends' personal wealth.
Sociopathic behaviour.
On that note, it should be illegal to hold an official position with a conflict of interest, such as owning real estate for investment purposes. It would theoretically keep rich people out of office.
I just don’t know why that isn’t a total deal breaker to so many.
They’re not even asking for much (an X on their ID or updated gender, and a new name, and literally a pot to piss in). They’re not forcing themselves on anyone. They’re not privileged or oppressing anyone.
It's almost like a 'not the other guy' platform lacks depth
Remember when we thought Americans would elect someone who is better for them?
Says the person who gets in the way of proportional representation electoral reform allowing the fascists like Pierre Poilievre with only 45% of the vote potentially win all the power and no instant run-off ranked ballots won’t fix it because it will continue to entrench a defacto 2-party system where people are dissatisfied with both choices.
It’s much easier for the extremists to perform a hostile takeover on a big tent party than a bunch of smaller ones. You know this you’re on Lemmy.
The liberals need to swallow their arrogance and work with the smaller parties to pass mixed member proportional representation as it counts the most votes and increases accountability and stability in government.
The largest voting bloc in the United States is the people who didn’t vote at all. They were not excited by either choice. Kamala Harris could’ve had a coalition with the smaller parties and independents instead of what we had to deal with today.
I'm for the count the votes and divide the seats. We don't really have local representation anymore anyways. The MP is going to vote the party way so I don't find it meaninenful anymore. Also the vast majority of people are choosing who to vote for by who the leader is anyway. And with party voting who can blame them.
There aren't smaller parties with enough people in the right places in the USA to make the difference up for Harris.
There’s also the issue of partisan district drawing in the USA.
Hence the "in the right places"
I can't think of anything that would give more of an appearance of weakness than setting demands on another party for who they'd install in cabinet if they won.
