There oughta be a law

[joenotcharles]

I think there should be a law that if the government runs commercials demonizing its opposition, it automatically triggers an election. Because clearly they're campaigning already.

I'm gonna keep hammering on this every time I see one of those damn commercials.

Comments

[taxlady]

I think I have to agree.

Mostly, I think, they are showing us what kind of slime they are.

[azrhey]

It's the fact that their PR people thought that that add was going to be appealing to enough people that worries me.

That and the fact that I know people who think they are a good idea....

[zratha]

There might be one in September.

[metawidget]

Election calls are now acting sort of like a Poisson process in Canada, except in the unlikely event that we hit a term limit. The fun thing about Poisson processes is that the expected time to an election is always the same (i.e. it's perpetually expected to be a few months away).

That being said, I think election spending limits should start being counted against the moment the previous election is over. That'd reduce some of this tomfoolery (until the Cons just ignore such a law, as they tend to do with election-related laws that are inconvenient).