This thread is for reports on how voting is going in your own riding/province, etc. – voter turnout, any interesting developments.
(Voting, not results).
This thread is for reports on how voting is going in your own riding/province, etc. – voter turnout, any interesting developments.
(Voting, not results).
I’ve had some encouraging news.
This morning I was doing political commentary for the London, Ontario A-Channel morning show. I pointed out the bogus email from Russia trying to show evidence of the “secret agenda” and the one purporting to be from Elections Canada saying you can vote Monday or Tuesday. I also reminded people about the slanderous call from Axworthy’s campaign office to a live call in trying to smear the conservative candidate.
Since I got to work at my real job, I’ve had 3 people who identify as life long Liberals tell me they are voting Conservative today.
Some people are coming out of the fog!
One more thing (I promise), I’ll be tuning in all day, so if anyone has any interesting developments (ie, Liberal hijinks) in Barrie or other ridings, post ’em!!! I’m salivating, and now can’t wait until 9:30!!! God, HURRY UP DAY.
Tory Blue out here in Langley British Columbia,
Mark Warawa is our man.
Dropped off the kids at school and then right into the gym to vote.
Puzzled why so many moms are heading for their minivans and not the polling station?
What is with people? Call me crazy but I don’t like it when people steal from me. And I am certain not to allow them to do it again!
I guess maybe they needed another coffee before casting the liberals away.
God willing
Whoops! I mentioned God. I guess I am a fanatic right wing freak!!
Oh well, God Bless Canada, God Bless America, and down with the Liberals
All is calm here in Cambridge, Ontario. There is no doubt that the ‘Wave of Blue’ has arrived here in Cambridge..
Just in a drive to the grocery store I seen 22 houses with Conservative signs, 5 with NDP and 4 with Liberals.
There is NO DOUBT that Gary Goodyear (Conservative) will be re-elected here in Cambridge, ON.
I think that Toronto is going to open up the newspaper tomorrow morning and be suprised at how DIFFERENTLY they are from the rest of the Country. The ‘BLUE’ is spreading across the country with the exception of Toronto. For the first time, I feel I have more in common with the people of Quebec than I do with the people living off Yonge Street…
This should be a humbling experience for them!
Cheers!
Is anyone else getting the feeling that Stephen Harper has just embarked on a long Prime Ministerial position? I mean, once he is PM, what the heck are the Liberals going to use to scare us? If he has already been PM and the sun comes up on Tuesday, I would recommend that Liberal Party members get accustomed to an ever-decreasing attendance in the House.
All is calm here in Cambridge, Ontario. There is no doubt that the ‘Wave of Blue’ has arrived here in Cambridge..
Just in a drive to the grocery store I seen 22 houses with Conservative signs, 5 with NDP and 4 with Liberals.
There is NO DOUBT that Gary Goodyear (Conservative) will be re-elected here in Cambridge, ON.
I think that Toronto is going to open up the newspaper tomorrow morning and be suprised at how DIFFERENTLY they are from the rest of the Country. The ‘BLUE’ is spreading across the country with the exception of Toronto. For the first time, I feel I have more in common with the people of Quebec than I do with the people living off Yonge Street…
This should be a humbling experience for them!
Cheers!
Is anyone else getting the feeling that Stephen Harper has just embarked on a long Prime Ministerial position? I mean, once he is PM, what the heck are the Liberals going to use to scare us? If he has already been PM and the sun comes up on Tuesday, I would recommend that Liberal Party members get accustomed to an ever-decreasing attendance in the House.
Light but steady stream of voters here in Van South. Alas, no valet parking for the latte/chardonnay socialists who have elected Weasel Owen for the past couple of elections. Definitely not going to my Tory guy, but hey, I’ll just have to move. Lots of the blue rinse crowd, Owen devotees, so unless the socialists spank old Weasel this time around, he’s probably going back to Ottawa to do nothing as usual.
“Imagine your adult son is accused of shoplifting. He has an excellent job, takes great care of his wife and your grandchildren and you, gives lavishly to charity, has good taste in music and books, doesn’t drink to excess or apparently have any bad habits except for a tendency to be a bit smug and now, he’s been accused of shoplifting. So what do you do? Disown him, set fire to his house, your house and shoot every member of the family between the eyes!
That will teach the arrogant little pisher!”
Far more good than bad has been done by our government.
It will be interesting to see a change in gov’t, but the incessant demonization of the Libs is really tiresome and inflated.
Just voted. Wasn’t asked for ID for the first time in memory. Strange that I can show up at a ballot box in a first world country with a voter card which explicitly states it is not a form of ID and just vote. Not very busy, though I was happy to see a trustworthy fellow blogger there as an election scutineer.
Sadly, just spoke to a co-worker who is a long
time Liberal voter. He was so unimpressed with
the Libs and their candidate (Ottawa West) that he
was voting Cons. This morning he says he’s voting
Lib to prevent a Cons Majority…..he’s “afraid” of
what will happen……specifically afraid of ….?
Can’t answer that one, sorry…..
Reminds me of:
Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm!
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that�s the way it�s always been done around here.
And that, my friends, is how Liberal voters think
(or don’t)….
JCL
The sign elves were out last night in Hamilton West, lots of David Sweet CPC signs everywhere outnumbering the Liberal and NDP signs by a good margin.
No surprises, line ups or jerks at the polling station at 10AM, just walk in, vote, walk out. Canadian style. I like it.
Okanagan – Coquihalla
Beautiful sunny day here in the Okanagan. This riding is strong conservative. Asked at the polls if they had been busy. Reply: steady stream of people.
When I watched the sun come this morning, I said a little prayer. Hope that this is the beginning of something good for Canada! Good luck to Mr. Harper and his team today.
Out here in southeastern Ontario poll lines are brisk. I’m in Prince Edward Hastings, the Belleville riding, where Conservative MP Daryl Kramp will win re-election easily, as someone above already pointed out. We had record advance polling turnout.
The second 9:30 came and our polls opened, I got a phone call for my husband from the Kramp campaign to make sure he’s going to vote (they obviously know I already have). They’re really organized, and it’s very encouraging. My sister and brother-in-law are voting for the first time in ages today, and they won’t be voting red. And my father-in-law isn’t voting red this time, either. I’m really hyped.Won’t it be neat if tomorrow morning we wake up and the only areas in Canada which went red are downtown Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal? Imagine them outside the halls of power.
By the way, if you want to hear how Paul Martin defines Canadian values (municipal water works and daycare, apparently) you can read the transcript of the radio interview I did with him at http://hipathome.blogspot.com. Just scroll down. It’s pretty funny.
I hope CPC scruntineers are asking that voters produce identification — our voting system is so open to fraud it’s a joke. Piles of voter cards at apartment buildings. I received one at my house for a tenant who moved out 5 years ago. He’s (a) left the country (b) hasn’t filed taxes in the past 5 years (c) died. It’s ridiculous.
I’m in Downtown Toronto and it seems the fine Tony Ianno supporters were out doing what they do so well …ripping down all of Olivia Chow’s signs.
There never were any CPC signs anyways.
The Toronto core is a right off.
Thick crowds in my small conservative town. Rick Casson by a landside for sure! (there really was never any worry.)
“I’ll be voting for Gordon O’Connor in Carleton-Mississippi Mills (west end of Ottawa). He should win easily. He is likely to be the next Minister of National Defence.
smitty out”
Already did that last weekend. 🙂
Jeff,
Suppose your adult son has been CONVICTED of shoplifting. He is the executor of your grandfather’s estate. Money has gone missing. He wants to continue. Just as you are considering keeping him on, you notice funny trading in the account involving transactions with his friend’s brokerage firms.
NMo. You don’t set his house on fire. None of that. YOU SIMPLY APPOINT A NEW TRUSTEE.
Walked one block in the rain to the nearby school to vote here in lovely Langley, B.C. Rookie Cons. MP Mark Warawa last time around doubled the votes that all his challengers had put together. He will still win mighty handily, although I believe they have a stronger Liberal candidate this time around. 10:00 a.m. here in B.C., and the poll was very quiet, only about three of us voting. I joked with the polling guy that tonight should be very exciting and that I could not wait. He laughed and agreed with me.
Just returned from Polling Place… Time 11:10AM Mountain… Voting has been heavy for this time of the day. A quick glimpse of the List of Electors for my poll number indicated about 50-60 percent of the voters had already voted before me. This is terrific….
Looking at other polls in the same polling place it looks like it has been steady… (+10 degrees here in the foothills of the Rockies) so the gymnasium floors are quite dirty… ergo… lots of people have been trapsing in and out….
Got up this morning, discovered that “the sun had came up”, came to the conclusion that the Liberals had been lying so voted conservative.
No volcanoes or anythig after I voted so think “we are safe”.
It’s sure nice to think that PMPM has but a few hours left in his tenure as Prime Minister.
A CPC majority would sure be tasty icing on the cake though.
Going to vote in about 45 minutes.
You can’t be serious Jeff?
Anyone in government should be held more than accountable and made an example of.
Does the word honorable mean anything to you Jeff?
“A quick glimpse of the List of Electors for my poll number indicated about 50-60 percent of the voters had already voted before me.”
1.56 millions folks voted at the advanced polls. They would be amongst the crossed-out names.
Went to Mikey Moore’s site to read his pompousness letter to us rubes.
Here is my reply to him. Doubt he actually reads the emails sent to him, but it made ME feel better 😉
“America is our neighbour, not our nation.”
Paul Martin’s spin doctors speaking out of his ads, during the second English language debate.
“Piss off neighbour and stick to your knitting.”
Lyle Bert,
CPC supporter.
evilprinceweasel – “Deeply disturbing to me was the lack of requirement to produce any identification whatsoever.”
Noticed that as well @ the advance poll in St.Catharines. Why is that?
Kelowna-Lake Country
The voting station I went to is having a steady stream of people(mostly older). It was nice to see that I wasn’t the only one that took my pre-schoolers out today to see the vote.
Also I needed to show ID to vote.
Just did my duty and voted here in Lethbridge. Not much activity but I hope we get an excellent turnout. The price of freedom is vigilance and if people will not pay attention we will lose it. Gonna be an exciting and hopefully triumphant night!
Greg, I too hail from Airdrie. I thought I would take a drive around to the different polls and see what if anything was going on. I will be placing my vote this afternoon when my husband gets home from work. When I drove by the Town and Country there was a line up right out to the parking lot. Mostly, moms with lil toddlers hanging off their arms and legs.
I know “praying” isn’t politically correct, but I am praying for a Tory win!
God bless Canada!
just 20 minutes south of ottawa leeds grenville riding our MP Gord Brown will win easy
i have a U-Haul booked for tomorrow anyone interested wanting to help empty 24 Sussex!
the more the merrier beer and popcorn will be suppied by Scott Reid
So why the need, or lack thereof, to show ID?
Being inconsistent can’t be good.
Will be headed to the Masonic Temple here in Montreal shortly after work to do my duty. There is a chance we can unseat Robillard here in downtown Montreal, which would make my day. I am still shocked at our turnaround here in Quebec – I think we can pickup 10-15 seats here if things go well.
Will be celebrating a Conservative majority shortly after 11:00 pm. tonight. Champagne is on ice at home.
Dear Jeff,
You likening your Lieberal party, to your son who shoplifted…. Your story should read like this.
“Imagine your adult son is accused of shoplifting. He has an excellent job, lives an extremely lavish lifestyle that most of his neighbors couldn’t even dream of, takes great care of his wife and your grandchildren and you, gives lavishly to all his buddies, sometimes he gives these gifts to his friends in brown envelopes. He drinks with his friends while eating popcorn and drinking beer. He cheats on his taxes by using offshore accounts. At some point he finds that the shop lifting isn’t Jacking him like it used to, so he moves up into bilking peoples life and retirement savings from them by manipulating income trusts. He feels he has finally arrived, his ship were coming in as it were.
So what do you do? Disown him, set fire to his house, your house and shoot every member of the family between the eyes! That will teach the arrogant little pisher!”
That is exactly what we’ll do Jeff. Drop your sheep mentality, follow the logical side of your brain. There is still time for you to be de-programmed, trust me it will be alright without the red flag.
But his mom says “he is a good boy, trust me he is a good boy”
Been driving folks to and from their polling stations. Amherstburg seems to be doing steady traffic, and one polling station in the LaSalle area is also steady. Also the hamlet of McGregor has a steady stream of voters. Don’t know how this will bode.
Just voted in Ajax, Ont. I was the only one in the polling station. Buddy told me it was slow all morning.
Ajax is liberal country, maybe it’s a good sign that it’s been so slow.
St.Brieux Sask. +6C
Wore my BLUE colours, great day in Sask..we feel that Western breeze blowing in a PC Victory for Saskatoon/Humboldt riding candidate Mr Trost…..
steady stream of voters and also above normal volumes for pre-election day voting
Forgot to mention that Amherstburg, LaSalle, and McGregor are in Southern Ontario. Weather is beautiful – just a spring jacket and sweater is needed to-day. Those running – Cons. Jeff Watson, Lib – Susan Whelan of the Royal Family and the NDP can’t remember his name.
I showed my voter card to a table at the entrance. They sent me to another table to get my ballot. To get my ballot they asked me my name and address. That it?! I questioned them about it and they looked at me dumbfounded. Voter fraud in Canada?
Arcola, SK
We’re getting some Saskatchewan weather here – a few minutes of not-in-the-forecast thickly falling snow, then warm sunny calm for the rest of the morning, and now a good fierce wind.
A steady trickle at the polling station when I was there mid-morning.
The Grade 5 class made a field trip the block down from the school to see what voting looks like; my son said it was “boring.” He checked with me to make sure I had voted correctly, though.
Wow! was I rushed this morning.
I had to change all of my “40 Below Conservative” signs to “4 Above, Overcast With A Chance Of Light Flurries Conservative”
What a beautiful day!
Emailing from CypressHills/Sask. Warm, chinook winds are blowing today, snow and ice starting to melt…Asland is on the move? Is this too much to hope for? We are hoping that Canadians are waking from their long slumber and are so sick of their evil ruler of “Can…arnia’s” diet of turkish delight that they are willing to turn to the right.
When Scott called the Day’s Inn Hotel 1-800 number yesterday to get information about our hotel room we had booked in Medicine Hat he ended up speaking to a lady in New Brunswick. He asked her who she was voting for and she wasn’t sure yet. He told her that we were hoping for a united Canada and that we cared for our fellow Canadians in New Brunswick as well as Quebec and that all across Canada we want to be able to sing our national anthem “O Canada” with pride! By the end of the conversation she sounded hopeful herself about voting Conservative because she was leaning that way already….she just needed a bit of encouragement to do the right thing.
Thank you Kate for articulating and putting in print what so many of us feel. You have given us hope!
We’re off to Maple Creek to vote for David Anderson Cypress Hills/Grasslands riding
(not the David Anderson from BC) Our riding is very blue. He hope he wins by a landslide.
We will be driving 45 minutes to our polling station….thankful that we can vote for accountability, responsibility and integrity in government in this great country of ours.
God…….bless Canada!
I took my long-haired, unshaven, Starbucks- drinking, Queen’s educated,unemployed butt down to my Calgary polling station bright and early and proudly put my mark by the CPC candidate.
As my wife and I walked back to the car, she calmly and dispassionatly informed me that if the Liberals get in again we (Alberta) would have to seperate. As much as I am caught up in the general feelings of good will and hope that is permeating the CPC campaign, I wonder if people have considered the blackness that may descend with a Liberal victory of some sort?
I have talked to so many people over the weekend that either voted in the advance or said they were going early or after work as long as they got out & voted. Miller cp grey/bruce counties in Ontario should remain cp. Advance polls were very busy & being reported on local radio they are steady again, Indication Canadian’s want a change, & too those out their that keep insisting Harper’s western, g. bush values are too scary, will you read the fact’s HE WAS BORN IN TORONTO moved west When he was 18 or so, JUST LIKE DEIFENBAKER born In Holstein ON. Take a hike, give it a rest, Canadian’s are not listening annymore they WANT a CHANGE
Brief update on Ottawa Valley: Isolated reports of Liberal scrutineers not even bothering to show up in western portions of Ottawa-West Nepean! (This was from the 80’s onwards a Liberal stronghold as it became increasingly urbanized).
Confirmed Liberal scrutineer sightings in Nepean Carleton; this increasingly rare species is not yet endangered; federal intervention is not yet required.
Two Cents: I really hope you’re right about Cutler in Ottawa South and I’m wrong. Sadly, I doubt it though. I’ll be watching eagerly to see. (I’ve had repeated feedback from friends both ‘dipper and Conservative as well as Grit that spoke highly of McGuinty’s service to constituents, so fwiw, that’s where that comment of mine comes from.)
If Cutler won… and Baird, and Cannon and O’Connor, that’d be quite an embarrassment of riches of cabinet talent from Eastern Ontario.
-Holmwood.
Same deal…
I actually brought out my ID and they say “we don’t need that”.
So, essentially, anyone who got my card could have voted for me??
Why do I need ID to rent Blockbuster videos and not to vote??
DM
Soup — we could have gone to the same polling station. What if my voter card was stolen or delivered to the wrong address, or whatever. Someone votes for me, then I show up to vote with my ID/passport/whatever — can they go in and get that one vote back? Has this happened to anyone?
Neither a liberal nor a Conservative bee? WK?
But, look at the following: What is a “hit”? What’s a miss? Why such a huge #?…250,000 hits/day. Is this hyper-ventilation? Quote:
“# If you read this little web site – now nearing a quarter-million hits a day – I don’t have to urge you to get out and vote. But I will anyway.”
kinsella
It started to snow here in Halifax about 3:45 local time and the roads are now snow covered at 4:30. On my drive home there were reports of cars off the road outside Halifax and the streets are slippery. This may effect turnout of voters who planned to go home after work then go vote.
I have to pick up my wife at the ferry terminal on the Dartmouth side of the harbour and then go to the polls. If the snow continues for the next half hour we may be walking (about 2kms).
Mike, Dartmouth NS
Friends of mine who are scrutineers in K-W tell me the polls are brisk and there were some line ups this AM.
Snow really starting to come down in Fredericton. The Liberal nightmare I would imagine. Clear all day for the seniors to get out only to have the 9-5 folks stay off the roads.
That would be a shame really 🙂
Ooops, car off the road on my street. I live at the base of a large hill and a car couldn’t stop and ended up in a neighbors front yard. Took out a small ornamental tree, a weeping mullberry, I think. Anyway decided to walk to poll.