Provincial Election

fair enough. but she was a relentless campaigner..she is always up and ready with a quick reply…by comparison adrian dix is pretty flat. i would've liked to see the ndp have a chance .

Dix lost it for me when he was pulling the strings behind Glen Clark's scams.

If anyone else were leading the NDP, I might have voted for them.

….In other news, congrats to West Van/Sea to sky residents. You have a good man heading to Victoria. Replacing Sturdy as mayor is gonna be a heck of a challenge for pemberton.

wtf seriously?

4 more years without socialist rule isn't it grand !!!

Ugh, people are stupid

Although I wouldn't mind seeing what's under Christy's suit ;)

Fat, and fat lady bewbage aka socks [HTML_REMOVED] tennis balls.

Kn.

wtf seriously?

I concur

Saanich North and Islands is hella 3-way tight.

That's what she said?

Kn.

4 more years without socialist rule isn't it grand !!!

My thoughts, hindsight being 20/20 and all:

All your base belong to us-
The libs have a certain amount of folks who will vote for them no matter what. The great thing (for Christy) about this base is that they always vote. The Dippers rely on a coalition of greens, unions and regular old slightly lefties. Of that group the only greenies that consistently vote are now with the Greens and they or are spread thinly across the province. The unions aren't what they used to be and I don't think they have the same moral suasion over their members that they once did. The last group needs to be convinced to come out and vote - Dix did a terrible job at that.

Fix the Dix-
They say the best defence is a great offence. Dix ran a campaign like the Canucks play when they are up by a goal. Take no chances, make no mistakes and hope for the best. He said he had great ideas but wasn't clear on the details or the costs. So it was easy for Christy, who had nothing to lose, to fill in the blanks with the voters and in the process rile up her base - "remember the tax and spend 90's? - Dix'll do it again". To which Dix could have provided the details, made some real promises with respect to deficits etc. - but he really didn't do that. Mostly because he felt he didn't have to. As a result - both the Canucks and many NDPers will be golfing.

Remember the 90s:

Is a guy who forged documents to mislead investigators the best guy to ask for BCers trust? This is the best that the NDP can do? They must have known the libs would be on the "remember the 90s rant" - it has been their go-to thing since… well the 90s. So why pick a guy so intimate to the very scandals that got them punted in the 90s?

It ain't over till the fat lady sings (this is not a shot at Ms. Clarke - I think she looks amazing)
Dix spent a great deal of time, at least initially, going after traditional Liberal ridings. WTF - galvanize your base make sure they are fired up, then if possible go for some extra. Did he really think that he was going to appeal to the same folks that voted for Stockwell Day? Why waste the resources? Run the race like you are losing, run the race like you have something to prove and show the voters you actually care about their vote.

I don't know about you but my facebook is all a twitter about how the NDPers should have won and BC is "stupid" for voting Liberal - I admit I felt the same way about HST (I am very pro HST - but that is a different rant). However, I had to admit that it wasn't the stupidity of the BC electorate that caused my side to lose - it was the stupidity of the leaders on my side. NDPers will probably come to the same conclusion

New meme base?

I concur

concur +1

Wonder if there's any other places worth moving to. What a disgrace.

rewarding poor governing with further mandates, so hot right now

http://electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net/electionsbcenr/GE-2013-05-14_Party.html

BC Lib - 44.4% of total vote
NDP + Grn - 46.5% of total vote.

That's pretty much a split down the middle.

The problem, as I see it, is that the Greens are too much like the NDP. They are the NDP with green shirts. On CBC's "vote compass" the pretty much layer over top of each other on the spectrum and agree on most issues. We don't need two left parties, we need left, center and right represented.

Voters that might lean toward BC liberals (but don't want to cast a vote their way) are hard to sway when the alternatives are to go left or to vote for the angry white man right wing fringe party.

The undecided when lib because the NDP/green looked the same and appeared to be the worse of two choices.

Kn.

if your going to tally up the vote splitting wouldn't you have to put the conservative votes on the liberal side.

Id bet most liberal voters (like me) are not huge fans of crispy clark but dislke dix more.

ralph nader effect…perm u called it..:(