Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Ignatieff Improves Byelection Record To 1-7
Great news for Liberal leader Mike Ignatieff, who finally won his first byelection as Liberal leader, improving his record to 1 win and 7 losses. Sure, they might have lost a Liberal stronghold in a region that elected half his caucus (including his own seat, which he did not win my a large margin in 2008), but he finally won a byelection in Winnipeg North. Jack Layton has to be feeling the most heat Tuesday morning; but with the political trends in greater Toronto, Iggy has to be concerned about even winning his own seat in the next general election.
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The 'Leafs should hire this guy as coach!
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The Toronto Star is pretty much totally silent on the results from last night, obviously a bad night for the Liberals.
ReplyDeleteAs stated by others, all three ridings stayed or moved to the right yesterday. The Ontario riding moved from Lib to Con, the Northern riding stayed Con by a massive margin and the Winnipeg riding went from NDP to Lib. Not a good night for the 'progressive' voters.
I think the Winnipeg riding will swing back to the NDP in the next election. The NDP faithful were a little pooped from the mayorlty race and I am sure they will field a more experienced candidate the next round. Holding it will be tough for the Liberals.
ReplyDeleteWinnipeg goes either way: NDP or Lib and since the lib/dip/bloc are in coalition;it makes no difference which party wins in Winnipeg.
ReplyDeleteVaughn was a huge upset for the liberals taken from by the conservatives.
Susan Delacourt on CTV PP said, "the next election will be dirty." She said" the meaner and nastier the conservatives get on her blog tells her that things arn't right in their party and they are getting nervous". I almost choked on my supper.She had on her Liberal RED boots too.
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