The Conservative Party has been trending upwards in the last two months of EKOS polling, and just look at Jane Taber's headline! I suppose that I owe a thank you to all the white male seniors in Alberta who have been driving up Tory national numbers, as this single demographic of people are the reason that there is good news for Conservatives nationally. I'm curious, what percentage of white male seniors from Alberta voted Tory in 2008? I'm guessing 80%? Did we lose a bunch of while male seniors from Alberta since the last election, only to win them back in the last two months?
Great headline Jane. Did you think of that one yourself or did Graves? Granted, error rates are significantly higher when you focus in on individual regions and demographics. You take good news for the Conservatives and draw up a headline to spin it as solely attributable to white male seniors from Alberta. That's about what I've come to expect of Taber.
When all else fails try bigotry. White male seniors aren't people you know. Its all their fault.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bloody hack Graves is.
ReplyDeleteConservatives should count there blessings that native children in Quebec can't vote otherwise they'd be lucky to win 26 seats.
ReplyDeleteEvan Soloman was very concerned that the majority of these old white men only have a college education or less.
ReplyDeleteGosh, makes me wonder if Evan was Prime Minister , would he only allow University educated old white male Canadians to vote? We just don't measure up to CBC standards.
^No idea what Anonymous was trying to say there.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I am an Asian-Canadian son of immigrants, and I know for a fact that there are millions of Conservatives of ethnic minority descent in this country. When journalists and liberals try to paint conservatives as some type of homogenous voting group (i.e. white, male seniors) I just laugh because little do they know that times are changing. There is definitely an underground movement of "unconventional" conservatives changing politics riding by riding, especially here in urban areas.
Poor deranged Jane... "Old white guys in wind breakers" strike again. I think Jane should be charged with spreading hate against "old white guys". (sarc)
ReplyDeleteThis sort of in-your-face hatred and bigotry is a sure fired sign of how frustrated the Toronto media is.
ReplyDeleteAll their lying and propaganda efforts are continuing to get them no where. They’re all going to get punted if they don’t start producing the results that the owners of the Liberal Party expect of them.
"This sort of in-your-face hatred and bigotry is a sure fired sign of how frustrated the Toronto media is. "
ReplyDeleteBingo - if Rob Ford wins the mayors race in Toronto, which I think he is going to, Heather Mallick, Haroon Sidiqui and Jim Travers are going to loose their mind!
2 years ago today, PMSH won his second minority government.
ReplyDeleteIn the 24 months since, the Harper government has survived
the attempted coup by the coalition of losers,
non-stop media driven faux scandals
the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression
and is polling only 1/2 percent lower than on election night, 2008.
The Liberals and their media should be worried.
Excellent points Wilson. Obama is going to suffer in November because of the economy, but the Conservatives are still polling just fine here in Canada.
ReplyDeleteAs an old Alberta white guy without a university degree I can tell you that most of my non-white, non-university educated, non-male acquaintances voted Conservative as well, and will do so again. I voted Conservative in 2008, but this time it will be none of the above. My political activities will concentrate on provincial politics where we at least have a chance of electing a conservative government instead of the faux-conservatives we have in Ottawa. Us old white guys will definitely give the WAP a boost. Then these anti-conservative media types in Ontario can really have a field day telling us Albertans how out of step we are with the ROC.
ReplyDeleteIt is too bad that all those taborists don't do some study of history. Seniors in AB would be my age so go back to what the requirements were to get a good job, or what was taught in schools. You did not need a university education unless you were going into medicine or a few other professions. One could pass grade 11 and go to normal school for the summer and be a teacher by fall. One could come out of a business course in grade 11 and get a good job in any office. Going to a business school gave you the qualifications to be an office administrator or higher.
ReplyDeleteThe mechanic, home ec, business, hairdressing courses taught in school along with all the matriculation coursed and after gr 10 you could get a job. So quit dissing us AB seniors, we got an education that was meaningful. Eventually a lot of those students did go on to get their degrees, again from universities that taught. And another thing one had to have 120 credits to graduate and you had to have english, grammar, spelling, math, algebra, physics, and a few other subjects to get those credits. I would not be afraid to say we had a better education than the majority of graduates today. And while we were learning we also played on swings, played scrub, and other dangerous games, and on other dangerous things like slides, teetertotters and got in arguments and fights, and how many remember jackknife. Yes, every boy carried a jackknive to school, had bbguns, and nobody got killed.
Sorry for the rant but I have had it with so called journalists dissing Alberta. I am a senior woman in AB and I vote conservative. Another thing, during my lifetime we have only had two provincial govts here, social credit and conservative.
Trivia
ReplyDeleteon Jan 23, 2011 PMSH will replace Lester Pearson as Canada's 11th longest serving PM, 5 years.
On April 23, 2011 PMSH replaces RB Bennet as Canada's 10th longest serving PM
On October 28, 2011 PMSH replaces John Diefenbaker as Canada's 9th longest serving PM.
Just think: One day I too can be a subhuman scapegoat.
ReplyDeleteWilson: Check your math.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada_by_time_in_office