Oh yeah? Well Ralph Klein HATES your kitty!
Ray Martin won in my riding! I've never been so thrilled to be wrong. The poorest urban riding in the province yanked Yankowski - sorry to get so "page six" on ya - and gave Martin about half of the votes cast here. I have never voted for a winner before, man.
There's more good news - the Liberal party made inroads in Calgary (possibly due to the influence of the hard-right vote being drained away to the shiny new recalcitrants of the Alberta Alliance) and stuck fast in Edmonton. Some of the Edmonton ridings were pretty fucking close - when you consider that the IMF rates Alberta the 40th largest economy in the world, you realize that there are nine people in Edmonton-Castle Downs who are going to need a stiff drink tonight, and that since their votes elected a Liberal over a PC incumbent, I should probably buy them one.
From there, though, the news is dull, gray and windswept. The PCs may have lost about twenty percent of the popular vote since the last election, but that still left them with a pretty comfortable majority, with at least 59 of 83 seats in the Leg' bagged and tagged. Not bad for a party with no platform to speak of (which is why all those "my (kitty / hamster / monkey / burro / husband / jizz) could've led the PCs to a majority" emails to the CBC coverage desk, etc.).
Then there's that voter turnout stat. Forty-four percent is abysmal, deplorable, the lowest ever. My math's always been funky, but less than half of less than half is less than a quarter, right? So this province's next four years has been committed to Klein by less than twenty-five percent of the eligible voting population. Yay. It's not that I wish for the chaos in Ukraine right now, but at least it seems like those people give a shit about the democratic voice.
Oh yeah, and the Socreds? One point two seven of the popular vote. A handful of us still do drive the Chevy to the levee.
There's more good news - the Liberal party made inroads in Calgary (possibly due to the influence of the hard-right vote being drained away to the shiny new recalcitrants of the Alberta Alliance) and stuck fast in Edmonton. Some of the Edmonton ridings were pretty fucking close - when you consider that the IMF rates Alberta the 40th largest economy in the world, you realize that there are nine people in Edmonton-Castle Downs who are going to need a stiff drink tonight, and that since their votes elected a Liberal over a PC incumbent, I should probably buy them one.
From there, though, the news is dull, gray and windswept. The PCs may have lost about twenty percent of the popular vote since the last election, but that still left them with a pretty comfortable majority, with at least 59 of 83 seats in the Leg' bagged and tagged. Not bad for a party with no platform to speak of (which is why all those "my (kitty / hamster / monkey / burro / husband / jizz) could've led the PCs to a majority" emails to the CBC coverage desk, etc.).
Then there's that voter turnout stat. Forty-four percent is abysmal, deplorable, the lowest ever. My math's always been funky, but less than half of less than half is less than a quarter, right? So this province's next four years has been committed to Klein by less than twenty-five percent of the eligible voting population. Yay. It's not that I wish for the chaos in Ukraine right now, but at least it seems like those people give a shit about the democratic voice.
Oh yeah, and the Socreds? One point two seven of the popular vote. A handful of us still do drive the Chevy to the levee.
posted by gibletquesterrs at 4:45 AM
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