What will be the Reforms next Holy Grail

[cybercoma]

What are you justifying your position with, other than a wild guess?

Let's take a look at this.

Your statement is this: "The majority of Canadians support the Conservatives".

You need to start from the entire electorate for that statement, not just those that cast ballots.

So, we can safely assume that all of those who voted for the Conservatives support the Conservatives, since... you know... they actually supported them by voting for them. That gives you roughly 25% of the electorate.

How about the other 75% then? Show me that more than a third of them support the Conservatives. Bear in mind that 39% or more than half of the remaining electorate didn't show their support for any party in the election. The rest of them cast their ballots for another party. To me, that doesn't say you support an opposing party. But I'll humour you.

Go ahead and show me that the majority of Canadians support the Conservatives.

[TimG]

Your statement is this: "The majority of Canadians support the Conservatives".

That is not my claim. I qualified my statement in subsequent posts.

I am saying the majority of Canadians could support the Conservatives but we don't know. I don't think it is a big stretch to claim that 1/2 of the remaining Liberal vote supports the CPC if the alternative is NDP. The same way I would say a large chunk of the CPC vote would support the Liberals over the NDP.

But more importantly: I am saying the claim that a majority do not support the CPC is wrong because it has no supporting evidence.

[CPCFTW]

Who cares? The conservatives won. No one cared about having to be "supported by the majority" until the socialists started losing. Now we have online petitions for electoral reform and constant whining from the left. The sense of entitlement from the Canadian communists is incredible.

Edited May 9, 2011 by CPCFTW

[bloodyminded]

Who cares? The conservatives won. No one cared about having to be "supported by the majority" until the socialists started losing. Now we have online petitions for electoral reform and constant whining from the left. The sense of entitlement from the Canadian communists is incredible.

"Canadian communists"?

Whatever you say, bro.' I mean, Comrade.

[ninjandrew]

Who cares? The conservatives won. No one cared about having to be "supported by the majority" until the socialists started losing. Now we have online petitions for electoral reform and constant whining from the left. The sense of entitlement from the Canadian communists is incredible.

Than why dont you do like everyone else does and ignore them? I dont think Ive ever even found any news about those guys unless I was looking for it specifically. Besides, they werent even on the ballot.