SpankyMcFarland

The numbers speak for themselves.

How is homelessness being defined there and is it the same in every country? I see a lot of Americans living in their cars for example. The most visible type is unsheltered, ie living rough on the street. Here’s a graph from the FT. A lot of UK homelessness is people in temporary accommodation whereas the US has an awful lot of hard-core homelessness.

I see he’s ranting about the ‘China loving Wall Street Journal’ now.

Any truth to this story about PP struggling in his own riding? Whatever about that I think it’s fair to say the Tories have had some serious divisions in this election, especially in Ontario: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-election-2025-pierre-poilievre-seat-ottawa-carleton-riding/

Watching Poilievre in Halifax this am. He looks rattled and stumbled over his lines more than usual. A modern campaign is a constant trial, even one of sensible length as we have in Canada. Nobody is fully prepared for it.

Do politicians often visit ridings late in the campaign they haven’t a hope in just to freak the other guys out? I see Carney was in Trois-Rivières yesterday, a seat not won by the federal Liberals since 1980.

It wouldn’t make much difference to my life. I doubt a PM Poilievre would launch trade wars across the globe or start fighting the deep state. If anything, my taxes would probably go down.

I bought a laptop today. All that amazing technology cost about as much as my grocery bill. The margins in manufacturing are very small these days.

Private care is coming, folks.

Yahoo, Major Carney, the cavalry are a-comin’ Yep, he has to be honest… https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-politics-1.7516951

Given that this geezer golf ad does not feature Poilievre, the Tories’ own polling must show that older men aren’t as keen on them or the leader as they usually are. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-week-ad-campaigns-conservative-ads-no-pierre-poilievre-1.7514897

So are pollsters deliberately falsifying their data in Canada? That would leave a yawning opportunity for firms that aren’t.

Mulroney grew up in a French-speaking town. It would be weird if his French wasn’t better than these guys.

In fairness, the Tories seem to have done an excellent job maximizing their vote among people on the right. We’ll just have to wait and see it if it’s enough.

Again, we’ve seen multiple wins for right-wing parties in other countries when the polls were against them. The Liberal support is wide but soft. Every Liberal on TV is telling people they must get out and vote, ie ignore the polls. In terms of message, I think affordability has been underemphasized by the Tories. The crime/drugs/prison stuff is not going to swing centrist voters when the entire country is being threatened by a foreign criminal and the base vote is maxed out already. Tying a healthy economy into being able to resist Trump would have been my message, eg Canada Strong. I see a geezer-aimed Tory golf ad on the lost decade that doesn’t feature Poilievre. They must be hearing something about his favourability. Winning arguments isn’t the same as winning people over.

What about people who won’t bother voting because it’s a ‘sure thing’ for the Liberals?

And Britain didn’t have an election from 1935 until 1945.

I’m not sure what effect pro-Liberal polls would have on voting behaviour. We’ve seen right-wing victories in countries across the world where the polls got it wrong. However, I think the polling companies would really have to take a look at themselves and their methods if the Liberal winning margin in polling persists and the Tories win.

The jury on the origin of the virus is still out AFAIK. Neither theory reflects well on the Chinese government.

Wrong. Why on earth would you say that? Ukraine is a democracy at war in constant fear of conquest. Take a look at other democracies under those conditions. Matters for another thread. Irrelevant here. Ukrainians want to live free of Russian tyranny. It’s very simple, really. Actually, Trump is working towards the betrayal of Ukraine, Europe and freedom.

What about Jewish liberals?

Trump is clearly following the Orbán playbook here. Antisemitism, gay/transgender rights and immigration are just convenient pretexts for him to suppress opposition to his deeply authoritarian aims. It’s obvious.

So you’d advise the leading opposition party to release its platform when it’s too late to have any effect? That sounds like deliberate self-harm to me.

There are millions of Americans suffering from no known psychiatric disorder who seem to take pleasure in damaging their own country.

So if Carney hadn’t produced one until the eve of Election Day you’d have advised PP not to produce one at all? Who is the Oppostion here, trying to get itself known and self-defined?