I’m serious, look at it here. 1ABVote’s most recent commissioned poll puts the Alberta New Democrats ahead with a 12% lead over the Progressive Conservatives. On the numbers provided, my model spews out this intensely whimsical result at me for seats: New Democratic Party: 34% – 42 seatsWildrose Party: 20%
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Blunt Objects Blog: #PEIVotes 2015 – Candidate Counts
Since I covered the final candidate counts for Alberta’s election race, I thought I’d quickly go over PEI’s since they’ll be voting a day earlier, and like in Alberta, something interesting is going on. Liberal Party: 27 out of 27Progressive Conservative: 27 out of 27New Democratic: 27 out of 27Green
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: #abvote – Final Candidate Counts
Yesterday was the nomination deadline for political parties in Alberta, meaning that everything should be set in stone by now. Here are the final numbers: Progressive Conservative: 87 out of 87New Democratic Party: 87 out of 87Wildrose Party: 86 out of 87Liberal Party: 56 out of 87Alberta Party: 38 out
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: My Thoughts on Hillary Clinton
I’m obviously not American, as I assume most of you aren’t, but regardless of that fact, the electoral races in the United States have a huge impact on our country – none more so than the Presidential races, and there is a big one coming up in 2016. Thus enter
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: #abvote – Week 1 Roundup
Though it’s not technically been a week yet, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the polling and events for the first bit of this election campaign. Let’s start with the polling. Polls – Week 1 InsightsWest (Mar. 27-30): PC – 31%, Wildrose – 27%, NDP – 22%, Liberal
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: 1 Alberta Votes, Google Surveys River-Sampling, and the Weird World of #ABVote Polling
The weird world of Alberta polling just got weirder. While I sit here waiting for ThinkHQ to release its official numbers for the recent poll it put out showing the NDP second, another poll popped up on my feed showing the NDP first in Alberta, against all possible odds. This
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: PEI Also Votes 2015
A day before Albertans go to the polls, on the other side of the country another government with a supermajority has called another early election, and also has a very good chance of being re-elected. The voters of Canada’s smallest but most potato-laden province will head to the polls on
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Alberta’s (Probable) Election 2015 Projection
With the signs looking as if the people of Alberta are going to the polls today, I’ve decided to just add a little projection page to the site for those interested. Its a little basic for the moment, but I’ll add in riding-level numbers as soon as I can make
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Alberta Provincial Poll: 30% PC, 30% Wildrose, and all sorts of weird.
Quito Maggi’s Mainstreet Technologies has put out the first poll in Alberta in over a month, also the first following the recent bringing down of Alberta’s deficit budget by the Prentice government which, as I noted before, is likely unstoppable because the soon-to-be ex-MLA Danielle Smith made some very bad
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: The Farce That Is Alberta Politics
If it hadn’t dawned on the voters of the great province of Alberta that they became totally screwed near the tail end of last year, it surely must have hit them yesterday with the bringing down of the Progressive Conservative government’s latest budget. In Canada’s conservative heartland, taxes are going
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: When Your Fist Meets My Face
I do not support the niqab. I said it – I do not, nor ever will, support women of any creed wearing a niqab, which to specify is the face veil that forms part of a hijab, though you can wear the latter without the former. I feel the same
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: There Is No Debate Over Vaccine Safety, Full Stop.
I have Google Alerts for practically everything under the sun that currently interests me, including right now for “vaccines” in Canada. As you can imagine, I’ve been getting multiple hits lately over that subject. Tonight, this opinion letter from a woman in Bolton in the online version of the Caledon
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Goddamnit, Toronto Star
Forum Research did a poll up for the Toronto Star, testing the political waters in Eglinton-Lawrence with Eve Adams on the ballot. The result was a healthy lead for current Con MP and Finance Minister Joe Oliver at 49% to 28% for Adams in the riding, along with inconsequential NDP
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: The End of an Era of Television This Week
He gave us hilarious moments, oft-repeated commentary on the major social issues of the day, and riled his opponents in a way that no other television personality could. Goodbye, and good luck in your future endeavours, Ezra Levant. May no other news network give you the opportunity to speak your
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Eve Adams, Open Nominations, and Lisa Kirbie
Its only Tuesday, yet this week has been one of controversy for the Liberal Party of Canada and its leader, Justin Trudeau. Let’s start off with the most controversial of them all: the defection of Eve Adams, Conservative MP for Mississauga-Brampton South, to the Liberal caucus, as well as Dmitri
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: How the heck did you lose that one, Andrea?
Credit: Sudbury Star I will admit from the top here: I actually expected Glenn Thibeault and the Ontario Liberals to go down in flames in Sudbury last night. That opinion was despite my own obvious leanings and my immense respect for Glenn as a politician. Let’s face it though, it
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: On John Baird’s Resignation….
The one thing that gets me the most about the Harper Conservatives and their stint in government over the last decade has been the utter ineptitude of some of the cabinet that has been rotated through. Names like Julian Fantino, Bev Oda, Peter MacKay and so on are always quick
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: How do you know its an election year?
The shrill shrieking of partisans can be heard on the winds. I like to think I’m as much a Liberal or anti-Harper activist as the next person, but this is starting to get out of hand: … now we have an even bigger problem, according to an astonishing story in
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: The (Wildrose) Party’s Over
Its completely real, folks – the Wildrose Party, a party formed out of the perceived slights towards conservatives of the Klein era that built up its movement during the more flagrant Stelmach and Redford regimes, is about to be history, as its executive and membership will vote on merging with
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Polls, polls, polls!
Three polls were released today from Leger, Forum, and EKOS, all except for the latter showing an increased Liberal lead compared to their previous polls. I’ll run through them quickly below. Leger Marketing – Dec. 13, 2014 – +/- 2.5%Liberal Party: 38% (+2%) – 151 seatsConservative Party: 32% (-1%) –
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