Comments on: Dion and May: Fearless Conviction

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I Had Evening Appys with Bob Rae, Anne Park Shannon and Keith Martin « — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:17:14 +0000

[...] is welcome. We allowed ourselves to get into bad habits. One really bad habit was thinking we could allow the leadership race to go on forever. Another is not understanding how important it is to be well financed. We got into the habit of [...]

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Lynne — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:28:38 +0000

If you read Wells and Radwinski today, you’ll see that this Heard is an old crank from way back.

One grumpy old man doesn’t constitute a linch mob against Dion.

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Hamilton Lib — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:27:46 +0000

What a fantastic time to be a liberal.
This is a truly brilliant move by Dion which shows true leadership and the ability to fight together towards a common good unlike the “your with us or against us” harper.
I am so proud to have Dion as leader of the Liberal Party.

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Woman At Mille 0 — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:57:05 +0000

Ha nbpolitico I guess you only read the stuff you want to read fine....go ahead if you feel it works for ya. But maybe you should check out Democratic Space. And they hardly have Alexis Macdonald this time do they? The only leader running there will be May.

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nbpolitico — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:45:08 +0000

the people who are really afraid of this deal are NDPers

I don’t know that that is true at all. I think the person with the biggest direct benefit from this deal is Alexis MacDonald, the NDP candidate that nearly beat MacKay in 2006.

Let’s look at the 2006 results for Central Nova:

MACKAY, Peter (CPC) 17,134
MACDONALD, Alexis (NDP) 13,861
WALSH, Dan (Lib) 10,349
ORTON, David (Grn) 671
BEZANSON, Allan H. (MLC) 124

And the results from 2004:

MACKAY, Peter (CPC) 16,376
MACDONALD, Alexis (NDP) 10,470
GREEN, Susan (lib) 9,986
MOSHER, Rebecca (Grn) 1,015

May is running hard against MacKay over the PC/CA merger and may be able to peel some votes off of him, in the meantime, I suspect MacDonlad will probably pick up some of the lost Liberal votes.

I would say that she may well win this thing thanks to this deal.

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janfromthebruce — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:40:36 +0000

New Liberal campaign slogan, “Hard times are Tory times”.

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janfromthebruce — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:39:35 +0000

New Green campaign slogan, “Liberal if necessary, but not necessarily Liberal.”