Michelle Malkin is doing a nice job of sending her sizable audience to get the latest in Canadian election coverage.
Poll closing times have been staggered to minimize the lag time between east and west coast results, however, if you’re looking for an advance peek at regional returns, I’m told Captains Quarters will be liveblogging.
I currently don’t have plans to be online – I’m planning on a night out with a few friends in front of a big screen tv with a beer in my hand. But if I can get a hookup for my laptop, I may get a post or update in.
The comments thread will also be open. See above – I won’t be here to police things, so behave yourselves, and don’t feed the inevitable trolls.
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650 CKOM will be posting results on their website as soon as Sask polls close. The little map should update automatically as the night goes on. |
A final note – I am making no predictions whatsoever. I don’t know that it’s really possible for any pollster to predict how votes may split, or the effect of a dismal campaign on a disappointed Liberal base. I’m content to just wait and see, and keep my fingers crossed for my own CPC candidate, Carol Skelton.
One final reminder to those who will be watching live – early returns tend to favour urban results. In ridings with urban/rural splits, the rural (conservative leaning) polls tend to come in a little later and in many cases, early leads by the left are overtaken. The trend isn’t as strong as it was some years ago, due to better communcations, but it still exists.
Other links I’ve been sent in the past week: ( I have no idea what they plan on doing – perhaps just sharing their emotional highs and lows…)
BBS
Vectorsphere
Decisioncanada2006.
Econoline
Publius Pundit.
Uncle Meat
Surly Beaver
Send your trackbacks, and comments, but I do advise Canadian bloggers not to overtly break the ban on posting results directly.
Also – judging by the google generated traffic, there’s a chance the server’s going to get slammed by this evening. Try to do your part by taking it easy on the reloads when reading comments.
And while we wait, a thoughtful piece by Pieter Dorsman on the future of the left in Canada.
Update: Kate Foxworthy moment: When you’re working as a scrutineer at a polling station and some guy rides up in a sled and votes in a full face helmet and gear – and everyone knows who he is – you might be in Saskatchewan.
The trolls can “troll”-off. Here are my predictions. This is being run like election ’84, and the polls were about the same then. It ended up being the largest majority government in Canadian history. Who do you think is the adviser in this campaign? It ain’t PET. So here are my estimates: Tories: 211, Grits: 40, NDP: 42…wait just a minute here…
Take the night off Kate… I think you’ve more than earned it! Have one for me woodja? I gotta work tonight. Friday…WooooHoooo!
Last night I felt like it was Christmas Eve.
Today I feel just like I did in my younger years sitting in the hospital waiting room, smoking cigarettes and nervously waiting for my kids to be born.
BTW the ballots in my riding weren’t at all confusing. There is only four candidates and under each name it is clearly marked Conservative, Liberal, NDP or Green Party. So even if you are terribly uninformed and don’t know the name of the person representing your party, you can still vote for the party.
Majority, or minority, the Conservatives can still govern as a majority. The Lieberals are broke and won’t be wanting another election anytime soon.
I just tried to access the Captains Quarters blog @ http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/ it just sat there ‘loading’ – is anyone else having the same problem?
I have an eastern satellite connection so if anything exiting happens before the polls close here I will post it.
The Bear is right. The Captain’s Quarters Blog is not loading. I hope this is merely technical and not something more sinister!
Gee Kate, of course Carol is going to win in your riding. Rural populations are so sparse that they do not have to deal with social issues, and are therefore conservative by definition.
And Miss Malkin – she’s pretty hot for a Jalapeno.
I can attest to the rural-urban thing from the 2004 elections (which I watched from down here on C-Span). From 10PM to 1AM, the Libs had 140 and the NDP had about 20. I go to sleep, wake up the next morning and the grits fell to 135 (NDP fell to 19) after “the farm vote came in” (as we say down here).
Since this is an open posting I thought I’d let people know about Samantha Burns’s interviews she has been conducting with candidates under the title of Kook or Candidate you might want to check out.
http://www.samanthaburns.com/archives/interviews/
Also, check out the Marxist party in Canada, the pictures speak for themselves:
http://www.samanthaburns.com/archives/2006/01/post_12.html
Carol’s riding takes in part of Saskatoon. So it is always a horserace here.
My link to CQ was broken. I think it works now.
I was just at Capt. Ed’s blog that I accessed directly from my Favorites list. So if there’s a problem with Kate’s link, here’s the URL for cutting and pasting.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
For no particular reason, I’d suggest going there after 6:00p.m. Eastern time.
Speaking of election results, all this buildup to an election and I have to (want to) go to my daughter’s school band performance, which just happens to start when the coverage begins here in BC. Who picked this date? Is anyone aware of a source for e-mail election updates for my Crackberry?
Off To The Races
As I write this sentence, the polls are just about to open for Canadian voters in the eastern time zone. We’re off to the races.
Polling stations are already open in Atlantic Canada, and have been since 8:30 AM local time. No matter which time z…
Canadian colour is no longer Red.
Canadian colour is now Blue. >
Harper appears confident, at ease
VICTORIA (CP) – Buoyant and chipper, Stephen
Harper says he’s run precisely the campaign he wanted and is ready to take power – provided Canadians are ready to give it to him.>>
via cnews
I’m not surprised at the way the media is portraying Martin and Harper. As much as I don’t like some of the plans in the Conservative platform, I have to admit that we’re probably looking at a Conservative minority government, at the very least.
Buzzard was summoned by Ford to appear this morning. Buzzard has lost/given up the key to the washroom. Fly away, Buzz off: CAW. CAW, CAW. >>
http://www.voy.com/178771/123398.html
It certainly feels like it’s going to be a great night.
I’ll certainly be glued to the telly the whole evening.
As I don’t much care for most sports, this is my NHL Playoffs, my World Series, my Superbowl. Haven’t been this excited since Referendum ’95. Why? It’s also an election with national unity implications, as we well know. If the Libranos are returned to power… we may well be screwed as a federation. Hence the importance of a Conservative victory. A vote for the Liberals is a vote against a united Canada.
Remember that, any leftist trolls lurking about if you haven’t yet voted.
Choose Canada.
Vote Conservative.
Could someone please defend this insane rule that says a resident of BC such as myself should not know the results of eastern Canada until after our polls close. Are they afraid if I hear the results I will vote different? If I do change my vote based on the results of back east, what exactly is wrong with this? This makes no sense to me (especially as I can just get on the phone and call to find the results if I really want them). More nanny statism to the extreme. Not only are we too dumb to raise our children but we are too dumb to make up our own minds.
I’ll certainly be glued to the telly the whole evening.
I don’t know whether I’ll do this or just watch ’24’ and go to bed early. I don’t know if my li’l old heart will be able to take the tension, esp if the Libs manage some kind of comeback!
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough! (H/T: SDA)
There is wailing and gnashing of teeth in/on the Left/NDP.
Why, even Tommy Douglas’s fraudulent signature/icon/ is weeping. Doulas’s signature & the welfare state signifies the “re-distribution of wealth”; this is the socialist message; give us, the state, your cow(s); if not “WE” shall take your cow(s), aka private property, from you. The beloved saint is dead, at last. RIP, Toomy. >>
http://www.democraticunderground
http://www.rapp.org/url/?O8BD8PSX
Being in Alberta, and the Battle of Alberta is on again tonight, Edmonton hosting Calgary, I’ll be watching the game on satellite if anyone is carrying the game. After 12 years of Liberal(pick a bad word) I can wait till after the game to get the election results.
“Poll closing times have been staggered to minimize the lag time between east and west coast results…”
Oh, yeah. So now I have the option of waiting until 2:30am AST to watch the BC results come rolling in. Or not. Last time I went to bed and John Reynolds had been declared defeated. I woke up and he was doing fine. Strange country.
Am I just getting old and dottering or was it a bit more civilized in 1997? As near as I can recall the polls closed at a very civilized 7:30pm in Winnipeg (where I was living), exactly an hour after they closed in the Maritimes. An hour later the polls closed in Alberta and thirty minutes later in BC. And then, of course, they closed in Saskatchewan thirty minutes after that because Elections Canada forgot that Saskatchewan doesn’t observe DST.
But the whole country, six times zones across, had completed an election within three hours. As I recall, we even knew the winner before the sun went down. Now, was I just dreaming, or did it really happen that way?
Okay your election is over Canadians. Michael Moore says he loves you and he knows you crazy guys won’t vote for some nasty conservative…. now excuse me while I go take a shower and enema after linking to that clowns website.
I think the point of not disclosing results elsewhere is that people may be discouraged from voting if they see their party taking a trouncing early on in the day, or conversely, they may not bother to vote if they think their party has a strong lead already.
As a Canadian citizen outside Canada, with a blog written and hosted outside Canada, I can say quite openly that I will be posting whatever early results I come across. Anyone who wants to discuss the election without talking about how many seats the Martinis and Harp Seals have each won in Newfoundland is welcome to join the discussion.
Election nights are great, if they didn’t cost so much I’d say we should make them an anual event.
Off Topic:
Here’s a great American article about our election:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/13669377.htm
Western Critic:
Check here for email or text message updates.
http://www.canoe.ca/emailalerts
If you want to see what other blogger’s are saying visit http://www.electionblog.ca where you can search through Canadian blogs.
Don’t plan on any updates during the return votes. It looks like they’ll be observing the blackout period on updates – but the site will still be up to search.
Thanks for the American Article link, singlethreat. It’s no wonder that others say the Conservative party is a puppet of the Americans, when our biggest supporters seem to care so much what the Americans thinks.
Hah..
Tonight will be a night of celebration.
Canada is enjoying it’s maple syrup revolution.
Bravo Canadians.
http://bleedingbrain.blogspot.com
CTV early morning news.
http://www.charlesadler.com
Those comments by Andrew Krystal were slanderous to all Conservatives and very
irresponsible.
I know I will be calling Jim Hamm, General Manager, Atlantic Radio,
Rogers Media, (902) 493-7133 and complain about Andrew Krystal.
I will put the message to everyone that references to Hitler are
irresponsible and irreprehensible and Andrew Krystal should be reprimanded.
Mike
Krystal doesn’t even seem to think he did or said anything wrong. Read the emails that were sent about the incident:
http://www.charlesadler.com/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=741
I will be live blogging the election since I am currently resident in the UK. You are all welcome to come over and post whatever you like at http://www.thesurlybeaver.ca.
Missed the whole thing- I was watching The Simpsons.
Uh, Joseph. I think it’s Michael Moore that needs the enema. LOL.
Be sure to email some large emails to akrystal@rogers.blackberry.net He can at least pay for his stupidity with a large Blackberry bill.
So it is true, according to Malkin, that American political analysts are working on the Canadian campaign? I have no problem with it, but other Canucks might. I wonder if US liberals are helping Martin?
Jason;
Well Michael Moore seems to be on the payroll.
Listening to the PM on Bill Goods show this morning, this guy has no scruples, no shame, not a humble cell in his body. The venom of a cornered rodent. The untruths roll off his tongue now without the stammering and stuttering that that was so evident two months ago. I guess if he tells lies often enough he starts to belive what he is saying hence the fluid speech .
I don’t know which would be better for PMPM to lose his seat and make us all happy or for him to win and watch him be ridiculed, just like he has ridiculed the Canadian voters, and make us all happy.
It appears the CBC is breaking it’s own election ban. Radio Canada International is streaming it’s coverage.
http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/
Not sure if it’s available in Canada…
Harper phoned me over the weekend and invited me to the Conservative party at the Telus Centre here in Calgary. It will be exciting to see the new Prime Minister first hand. Hopefully the organizers have beer and popcorn on hand.
Well maybe it was just a recording.
I’m also liveblogging for those in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, who really are interested in this.
Y’all are great! 🙂
Londoner, it seems to only have the BC feed, do you know of another link? – not that I’m saying you should post it here…
I just saw Kate on CBC news at 6.
Well, I’m listening to the NF results now, and Atlantic polls close in a sec, and I’m listening to the RealPlayer feed. Maybe the RCI website is clever enough to know where your computer is…
It’s not looking so good right now
Just remember, Newfoundland is important, but not where the changes will be found. I would not be surprised if NF/Lab and the Atlantic Provinces stayed the same.
Just a note:
If a blog posts a picture of a local political group drilling into ice in order to put a sign up… it might be in Saskatchewan. 😉
Best wishes from someone who greatly admires those who can go without full-body-containment suits in such weather.