Don’t Forget To Vote!

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and your favourite Saskatchewan blog.

Because there’s no such thing as “too much despondency” among the left!
And remember Climate Audit!. Canadian “AGW hockey stick debunker” Steve McIntyre is within 250 votes of the leader and gaining.
I’m leaving shortly as I’ve errands to run, and plan to join some friends to watch as election returns come in. So consider this your election night discussion thread. Stay on topic, please.
Post Election Update As of midnight, the seat totals are 37 Saskparty, 21 NDP, and 0 for Saskatchewan’s Answer To Joe Clark.
Though some seats are very close and the (ugh) “prison vote” has yet to be counted.
Details at SaskVotes and CTV.
Speaking of media coverage – watching the three networks on screens side by side at Saskatoon headquarters was amusing. While Global and CTV kept on top of vote totals and seat counts through out the night within seconds of one another, as it became obvious that the SaskParty totals were pulling in front for good, the graphics on the CBC screen ceased updating.

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  2. “FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST…THANK GOD ALMIGHTY [SASKATCHEWAN’S] FREE AT LAST!!”

  4. Flipping between CBC Newsworld coverage and CTV newsnet, CTV anounced SP majority at 8:43, CBC l not confirmed until 8:51pm

  6. Wow. Sask Party winning, but not by as much as I thought. I expected a landslide. They might be calling him one term Brad in 4 years from now. In any regard a change of government will hopefully bring about some positive new ideas!

  8. “Speaking of predictable and hateful, ‘Devil Woman’ is Antonia Zerbisias.”
    If this is true it is way too funny and nearly as awesome as the NDP losing tonight.

  10. Steve, it depends if they redraw the map to chop up some NDP ridings. Ridings around Saskatoon such as Biggar, Humbold, and Martinsville win by huge majorities (~70%) and could be redrawn to give the SP a few of those “ubran” ridings.

  13. Just looked at Raymi the Minx site, I think I lost IQ points. Been voting for SDA every day

  15. The CBC commentary was obviously partisan for the NDP; they comments were focused around ‘hope’ for the NDP, and even the Liberals.
    Finally, they declared a SaskParty win – and then, told ‘the Rest of Canada’ what the SaskParty actually, politically, meant.
    The SP, the CBC informed us, is very similar in ideology to the NDP; it began about 10 years ago out of the dregs of the Conservative Party, and with Liberals, and is ‘slightly right of centre. Not ‘right’; just slighly right of centre, but, the CBC informed us, really quite similar to the NDP [and the NDP is the party they obviously wanted to win.]
    However, since the SP is, as the CBC informs us, very similar to the NDP – I guess they’ll allow it.
    The CBC said NOTHING about any issues or problems in the province. Not a word. The only email from ‘the rest of Canada’ that they posted for us, was one from someone in Toronto, begging that Sask..retain the NDP.
    So much for unbiased and factual coverage.

  17. Good point ET. In that spirit of unbiased truthfulness, I’d just like to say to the good people at the CBC and poor defeated Lefties throughout Canada tonight:
    We feel your pain.

  23. Here’s what I just posted on my blog:
    Congratulations to the new premier of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall. At the time of posting this, the Sask Party holds a clear majority of 36 seats, with the NDP reduced to 22. The Liberals got ZERO seats!
    Congratulations must also go to Kate and her great blog small dead animals. I have no doubt that the change in the province was made possible to a considerable extent by her blog.

  25. I’m watching coverage on CTV Regina. Is it my imagination or do the anchors appear to be genuinely happy at the turn of events?

  28. Bet the ‘errands’ Kate was running was to pick up beer and popcorn for the celebration.
    Congrats Saskatchewan!!

  29. Congratulations to you Kate and all those who wanted change.
    Saskatchewan can be just as prosperous if not more than Alberta. Now’s your chance to get it done!
    Not sure which results are latest, CBC says 33 seats and Saskvote 36. CBC don’t seem to update results all the time. For those of you who wished a bigger margin, well, a win is a win!

  31. We won one here finally … but for anyone who didn’t know the CBC before tonight, even they can’t be gracious about progress.
    I know nothing of the following Serge LeClerc … nothing. But for CBC to describe this SP winner as follows (and I did cut and paste) … is just beyond me.
    “Saskatoon Northwest returned to the Saskatchewan Party, electing newcomer Serge LeClerc, a former drug addict who now runs a drug recovery program. He beat …”
    If they did anything at all for a real person, they made me MORE wanting to shake this man’s hand and tell him I am glad we did what we did tonight!
    I mean get out of here. I think in a previous life somewhere I was born upside down in a gorilla … good thing no one found out about it!
    LMAO!
    Rick

  32. Saskatchewan is FREE!!! The socialist regime has ended!!!! Now the Socialist only have Manitoba and Cuba!!!

  33. At last, Saskatchewan, congratulations. We have grown-ups running Saskatchewan and the country, too bad the back-room boys toppled old Ralphie here in Alberta to bring in a retrograde socialist.

  34. Oh yeah … one thing that tells all.
    I kept both channels open (BTIM newstalk980 and CBC) to hear what was going on.
    CBC focus … the loser … Mr. Calvert and the NDP
    newstalk980 … the winner! (like most other’s in the media would focus on – let’s see our “promised land” with the power behind it! (and yes, that is a challenge to Mr. Wall)
    Rick

  35. It is a GREAT night in Saskatchewan. We finally have a real leader and real team to guide this province in the right direction. In my riding of Moose Jaw North it is still too close to call, I have faith that we will be represented in this new government. Great Job Brad! Saskatchewan is now poised to be a powerhouse on the Canadian stage! God Bless Saskatchewan!

  36. I really think that Sharon Elliott’s hat switching routine was a winner. If in the next election EVERY NDP candidate does the same, I’m sure comrades, we will again be victorious.
    Ear flaps rule!!! !!!!
    NDP – Nready Dfor Pbusiness … NDP.

  39. I’ve had the honor and the pleasure of meeting Serge LeClerc in person. His life story is incredible. He has risen from the worst background you can imagine, to become a counselor and role model for addicted youth and now an MLA. This would make a really good TV movie. Except I don’t want the people who did the Tommy Douglas movie to do this one, as it is a true story.

  40. CONGRATS to SK!!! Finally, there is hope for a province that has so much potential – with Brad there is hope! No more repression for the masses.

  41. WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BRAD WOLF?
    Not the voters in Saskatchewan.
    Congradulations to Brad and his team. And a big congradulations to Nadine Wilson who unseated what was probibly the most useless MLA in Saskatchewan history.

  43. Did anyone hear Andrew Thompson(former ndp cabinet minister) say we have to watch out for the “Christian Conservatives”? If it was any other group people would be howling. It is a great day for Saskatchewan!

  45. Warning, Warning
    I was just driving past a nursing home and saw a Sask Party bus loading all the old people from the home on it. This must be the start of it. The kicking out of grandma and grandpa from the home. The inhumanity. And what’s this? a little further down the block I see a FOR SALE sign up at SASKTEL. This just can’t be happening. Lying Lorne was right all along. What will we do? And there’s Pat Atkinson chaining herself to the doors of a Liquor Store. Way to go Pat. who will save us.
    Only one thing to do, LOL.

  46. Let’s hope the SaskParty is up to the task and what they’ve seen isn’t repeated. Perhaps it is time to buy a little piece of Saskabush for investment purposes.
    I’m afraid to inform the fellow Canadians here that Canada is a socialist state, whether the NDP are in power or not; maybe the reason for this is the NDP, Lieberals, and small-interest groups have big mouths, and there aren’t enough socks in existence that could be shoved down their gullets to shut them the heck up.

  47. Thanks to everyone who participated in my markets … special thanks to Kate for helping me in this experiment.
    The big play money winner on the “Next Gov’t” … drum roll … is Garth Brewer … with a $8,276.87 gain. The results (does not include anyone that cashed out) are here (thanks again to everyone):
    http://uralsmarkets.blogspot.com/

  50. Sell the Crowns! Sell the Crowns! Sell the Crowns!
    Sell the Crowns to…ENCANA! even better Conoco Phillips! Moo Hoo Ha Ha Ha

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