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Les Reviews Sont In – 2
You can read my debate live blog and post game analysis here. As for what the viewers thought? WinnerHarper 31%Layton 25%May 17%Dion 15%Duceppe 2% Most Prime MinisterialHarper 47%Layton 24%Dion 16%May 7%Duceppe 3% Did Opinions Improve or Worsen?May +49Layton +28Dion +11Duceppe +6Harper -10 To add to last night’s analysis, I think all the parties can be […]
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English Debate
Debate Thoughts First off – props to Steve Paiken who should be named English language debate moderator for life. Like last night, this was fun…I think it would be great to do a roundtable debate like this every 6 months, even when there isn’t an election going on. Like last night, I think everyone did […]
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Les Reviews Sont In
UPDATE: The Globe runs down the french media reviews. I’m usually way off base on this things, but they do match what I was thinking watching the debate. The obvious disclaimer is that these post-debate polls rarely tell the full story – Harper won the ’04 debate but it marked the begining of his tail […]
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Debate Night
Post-Debate Thoughts First off – I like the format. The leaders got a chance to explain themselves and still got to mix things up a bit. However, I do agree with Coyne that they really need to replace the French and English debates with a series of bilingual ones, because this was really “the Quebec […]
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Before you ask, no, the group in question is not the LPC
Group Wants Court to Call Off Election
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Stephen Harper Drinks Pepsi
That, and other shocking revelations, can be read in Julie Couillard’s new book.
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Debate Drinking Game
I think my favourite part of any campaign is live-blogging the debate. So, you can be sure that I’ll be doing just that tonight (en francais) and tomorrow (en anglais). But, with 5 leaders and few big issues, the debates might turn out to be rather dull. That’s why I present the 2008 Canadian Election […]
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Election ’08 Ad Watch: Bushwacked
A new website and new Liberal ads attacking Harper on the economy and foreign policy. Do they work? You be the judge! (and watch for a surprise cameo from an old face in the third one) How Would You Rate This Ad? A B C D F See Results How Would You Rate This Ad? […]
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Harper Plagiarizes Liberals
Err…the Australian Liberals, that is: Conservative Leader Stephen Harper plagiarized almost half of a speech he delivered in 2003 as opposition leader, Liberal candidate Bob Rae alleged on Tuesday. Harper gave the speech in Parliament on March 20 — the first day U.S. forces began bombing Baghdad, and two days after then-Australian Prime Minister John […]
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Better Know a Riding – Papineau
Welcome to part 2 of my 308 part series – better know a riding. Today, Papineau! The riding of Papineau is, appropriately enough, named after a political family – Joseph Papineau and his son Louis-Joseph Papineau, famous for his political leadership and trendy hairstyles (pictured here), which would later be mimicked by future Papineau MPs […]