Comments | binro33: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

binro33

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

May 03, 2011 11:49

It's been a crazy ride. This election was a sleeper event at the beginning of the campaign. Nobody expected much of anything. But every single party made history in one way or the other. The Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois both imploded leaving the Conservatives and the NDP to pick up the pieces ( Read more... )

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likethebeer May 3 2011, 15:59:54 UTC

I was thinking about you yesterday. Sorry about this, and I hope you get through it emotionally in the near future.

binro33 May 3 2011, 19:43:41 UTC

Thanks. Oddly enough, even though the Liberals have been drifting centre-right, the Kingston guy is actually a good choice. I think he'll be a pretty good MP.
Actually, it's Dan (the candidate) I'm worried about. He's been working tirelessly supporting lefty groups (4-5 nights a week for a year and a half) and a lot of people, and a lot of causes that he believed in, turned on him.
I'm also concerned for my friend Jamie. He was Dan's campaign manager. He wants to be a professional campaign manager. He's also been eating/sleeping/breathing Dan's campaign for 18 months. If he could have secured us even as little as 25% of the local voted, he had job offers lined up. We only got 21.5%.

jonthedull May 3 2011, 17:36:52 UTC

Sorry about the results. :(

From what I can understand the Liberals just didn't run a good campaign in many places, but what happened to the BQ? How did that happen?

binro33 May 3 2011, 20:02:40 UTC

The Liberals ran a terrible campaign. There were so many things to burn Harper on, and they failed to message any of them. For every angle they tried, if it didn't bite immediately, they dropped it and tried something else. They reminded me a bit of TV network execs who try an idea for a pilot and if it doesn't resonate within an episode or two they drop it and try move on ( ... )

jonthedull May 3 2011, 20:19:09 UTC

How could they not stick something on Harper? Then again nothing really stuck to George W Bush here so I guess that should not surprise me.

Thanks for the insight about the BQ. Perhaps the way things turned out is a sign that Quebec may be tired of separatism for a while. A little butt kissing of Quebec may turn out to be a good thing for the NDP in the long run.

binro33 May 3 2011, 20:40:29 UTC

I hope the Orange Surge in Quebec is more than just opportunism, and refelcts a genuine belief.