The Liberals squeaked out a minority government yesterday, and the Tories ended up failing quite miserably in all the areas that they hoped to succeed in.
Pretty interesting, especially after the polls said that the Conservatives were neck-and-neck with the Liberals the day before. In actuality, they received a SMALLER percentage of the popular vote, but still ended up with a few more seats because Liberal voters switched to the NDP in a lot of ridings, splitting the left vote. Just goes to show how useless polls really are.
The Tories got too cocky, really. People were e-mailing the CBC last night to say that they lied to the pollsters just so that the Tories would think they were winning and start showing their true colours towards the end of the election. And they did; one Torie candidate in Ontario stood outside an abortion clinic and said that abortions are no different than Arabs cutting off hostages' heads.
Touche.
When will they learn that social conservatism never flies in Canada? It also doesn't help when your party leader claims that the Maritimes are "defeatist," and they switch colours just to show you that they aren't.
This minority government will be good for the system, at least in the short term, I think. Even forming a coalition with the NDP, the Grits don't have enough seats for a majority, but the Bloc hates the Tories and won't go along with them unless it is in their best interests to do so.
Harper also hinted today that he might step down for being such a pussy.
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