Polls open in an hour. I’m providing this dedicated thread to share polling station observations, road conditions, seat predictions and other election day related comments. I will insist that your comments remain strictly on topic. All others deleted without mercy.
http://www.elections.sk.ca/
I can hardly wait for the CBC and the usual Socialist Coyotes to howl CWB if the Sask Party doesn’t get 100% of all votes and seats. They will parade every old disgruntled socialist and Stalinist holdover they can find. Even if he is 85 years old toothless and in a wheelchair.
I’ll be switching between CBC and Sun News coverage tonight. Twitter will be a lot of fun especially if the SP live up to the 44+ seat poll predictions.
From the road conditions link I see that Sask is in winter driving conditions. Is weather ever a factor for voter turnout, and if so, then who is more likely to get out and do their civic duty, rural or urbanites?
Best case scenario:
Sask party picks up only 1 or 2 seats.
This way Dwain will try to stay on as leader and we’ll get years of infighting and inertia from the NDP.
If it’s a blow out, then the NDP will start from scratch and the Unions and leftists will pile in the money to shape it the way they want it.
49 Sask Party (60.5%) 9 NDP (31.5%) Dwain gone by the new year.
I was in Saskatchewan last month. Beautiful province. Wonderful people. Saskatoon is booming.
They deserve to continue to prosper. They deserve better than the failed policies of the socialist hordes NDP.
$100 donation to my local Sask Party Candidate,
$1500 for snow tires to get to my rural polling station to vote.
$3 billion in NDP wild ass promises.
The look on Dwain’s face tonight when he concedes to a Sask Party (landslide)win……Priceless.
I think this is the end of the beginning of the end of the NDP in Saskatchewan. The population is growing. The economy is healthy. The need for government provided necessities like rural telecoms and rural electricity is declining. The need for “philosopher kings” to make decisions for the benefit of individuals is declining. All of the reasons for the existence of the NDP are in decline and hence the NDP is in decline. This will be reflected in the election results. They will continue to hold seats in urban areas that are full of unionized government employees and those elements of our society that are dependent on government handouts to maintain the style of living to which they have become accustomed.
I saw a car in the ditch on grid 3074 headed north towards Langham, don’t know if that guy was going to go vote or not though.
“They will continue to hold seats in urban areas that are full of unionized government employees and those elements of our society that are dependent on government handouts to maintain the style of living to which they have become accustomed.”
Well said. A very accurate description of the typical NDP supporter. However, let’s not forget many of the elderly who are easily frightened and manipulated by the socialists with horror stories of hidden agendas, gutted drug plans, etc. The unprincipled socialists will stop at nothing to pick up votes.
Best of luck with your trouncing of the dippers.
A big win for the Sask party shines a light on the mess the PCP of AB has made here in AB and will provide a big boost to the Wildrose party.
Bonne Chance!!
I hear you biffjr.
The elderly are a group that the NDP typically targets through fear and loathing.
As I see it, the Province is growing and it is seeing more and more people in the 25 – 55 age group immigrating. This with the natural effects of aging is causing the senior demographic to be less significant in Saskatchewan. And many in the aging demographic are seeing their children return or their neighbors children return. They are hearing the optimism these returnees are bringing with them. All of this seems to be making that demographic less open to the fear and loathing message of the NDP.
I went out and voted early. Too bad I can’t bot often.
There were three candidates from which to choose. On was a middle aged business man, who is also the incumbent, running for the Sask Party. The other two were students!!!! (Shades of Quebec).
One of the students was running for the Greens. No surprise there. But the really surprising one was that the NDP candidate was also a student. The NDP have really shown that they know they are about to be crushed. They suck and they know it. It’s also indicative, I think, of a big problem they have. The NDP is full of old hacks with gray hair. There are no younger folks who have been out in the real world working and experiencing real life, so all they have is old ideologues and young, naive, freshly indoctrinated university students. Ha!!
And speaking of road conditions, on my way to the polling station, I had a couple of tough spots where the streets were nothing but ice. On my way back, the town had already sanded them. However, I think walking will be treacherous, and I’m sure many of the older folk will be walking. Hope it doesn’t deter them.
My prediction for the Leader Post/Star Phoenix headline Tuesday morning,
ORANGE CRUSHED
LOVE TO SEE IT IN 60 mm TYPE.
ya I know, wishful thinking.
Leader Post? Here’s the headline:
Wall Regime Fails To Sweep Province
g1 Kate
Louise
It’s been my observation that parties that hold government for an extended time eventually run dry of ideas. If the Federal Liberals are any example, the grey haired reps you speak of spend the rest of their career squeezing the party for whatever else they can get at the expense of the party.
Sunny in the SE. Roads mostly cleared off. Gravel wasn’t bad anyway.
When I watched Ezra’s special, The Source from Sask, it almost brought a tear to the eye. Like the frog in the pot of water slowly being brought to a boil, it’s easy to miss how slanted the media was that we accepted until we had Sun News to compare it too.
From his opening editorial comment (which I have replayed and forwarded to many), the interview with our Premier and continuing on to the segment featuring John Gormley, it was perhaps, one of the best hours I have spent in front of the tele since the 54-51 OT win the Riders had over the Als last year. Ezra also gave me the only media exposure to our ridings ‘Green Party’ candidate!
Perhaps the most revealing part of the broadcast was (back to the frog in the pot of water) Ezra referring to the NDP as ‘the socialists’ as they should be called and openly conversing with Wall about the demise of the gun registry and CWB. Unapologeticlly!
Born and raised in this province and being raised with the constant comparison to our western neighbors (they got their preacher, we wound up with ours, Manning vs Douglas)and results of those policy choices evident to all, one saying comes to mind. With no intention to trivialize,
Churchill’s statement: ‘This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps the end of the beginning’
70 plus years of socialist choices that have crippled our province will take time to undo, but with a lot of my former classmates returning to a province they wished they had not been forced to leave, I think we are ending the beginning.
Sask Party all the way, only question left to answer, “Will Link get more than 7 seats?”
Seriously, it pains me to say this, but I do hope the NDP get a few seats, because a government with no opposition seems kind of scary, if you ask me. On the other hand…..
Get real Louise; the NDP *gone* is a good thing.
Voted late this morning. People running the poll told me that it had been steady all morning. This is a small poll in a very small town and the incumbent almost a dead certainty to be re-elected. The Green candidate is a parachute and nobody I know has ever heard of the dipper running. That would indicate to me a high turn out for the Sask Party.
Rob at 3:45 PM: “nobody I know has ever heard of the dipper running.”
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That says a lot about the NDP, doesn’t it.
Mike in Calgary at 3:33 PM: Mike, Mike, Mike. No party should ever be in a position where it can start to believe that it can’t be replaced. The Sask Party is no exception. Sure, they’re fresh and popular right now, but they need to know we are watching them and we can, if we wish, replace them. On that note, maybe the Provincial Liberal Party will gain a seat somewhere.
whenever you have “NDP” and “imploding” in the same sentence, it is a good day.
Worthy of a wee dram this evening.
Frankly I,m thinking of moving there. Alberta has become to Marxist with the intendant fact, its too expensive to live here anymore. Regulations & taxes have killed industry. I have a good job. Its not worth it when half your check is stolen by a rapacious municipality (Edmonton) with a Provincial Government bent on sifining even more of your money to blow. No one knows where?
Louise: I agree with you only inasmuch as the Sask Party can be replaced with a party that will allow:
Carry & conceal permits
privatizing liquor stores
beer at 7-11
riding motorcycle without a helmet
allowing me to hire my own doctor
etc.
Just anything — ANYTHING — but the NDP.
Does anyone else remember the NDP and their minions in the media crowing about how they hadn’t decided yet whether to let the Sask Party have one term or two? Murray Mandryk at the Leader Post hasn’t sung that tune for a while now.
Never mind patting yourself on the back. Get out and vote. Drive someone who needs a ride to the polls.
Brian Higgins
Toronto
with a Provincial Government bent on sifining even more of your money to blow. No one knows where?
Posted by: Revnant Dream at November 7, 2011 5:21 PM
Rev Dream…..I know where…to bury 2 BILLION in the ground(called CO2 sequestering).
I’m also considering a move there,but seeing as I’m retired on a fixed military medical pension,better do it quick before that Red Tory the PCP just elected brings in a provincial capital gains(when I sell my house,which I own,not the bank)
Anywhooooo….SP 46+ seats
my wife and I voted around 4 pm. poll workers said they had about 150 voters already, 75 by 11 am. looks like a good turnout.
Go Sask party!!
If you guys show how successful a conservative government can be, maybe it will help us get one here in Alberta:)
I spent the day providing transportation to the polls for seniors that otherwise would not have voted. The results of the bad weather this last week-end has caused some problems for our seniors.
This makes a good case for changing voting day in Saskatchewan from November to June. I hope that Brad opts for that change.
I was struck by the number of comments by the seniors I gave rides to, to their polling station. Several said words to the effect “I did my duty”. How can we instill this sense of responsibility in our younger generation and generations to come? It is an important challenge that we must meet.
Seat prediction? Sask Party 48 – NDP 10
Different Bob.
Agree wholeheartedly with your comment about seniors doing their duty. God bless them. They are a dying breed. I fear for the future when they are gone.
Once you guys are done, please send a few strategists to remind the Manitoba Conservatives how to run a fiscally-sound and proper campaign.
We’re dying on the vine here.
“Murray Mandryk at the Leader Post hasn’t sung that tune for a while now”
Mandryk is one of the main reasons that I cancelled my subscription to the StarPhoenix.
The man is an insufferable know-it-all and an unabashed cheerleader for the NDP.
I cant get any live streams working tonight. Can someone keep me up to date? Thanks
Anise
Sask Party 67% of popular vote
NDP started out with 20 seats, now looking like they may get only 10.
Leader of NDP trailing in his own riding.
Thank you Louise, thats lovely news.
Now we have to start work on that bloody woman to the west of Sask.
The best part is the Wall government is doing better than the NDP under Tommy Douglas!!
Is anybody watching CBC’s coverage? There must be some very long, sad faces there.
I turned to CBC for a couple of seconds. Everyone, including the people in the background, looked depressed 🙂
That makes me happy. And no, I won’t apologize for that.
49 seats. Looks like a WIN for Saskatchewan.
The overlooked question here is will the greens pick up that all important single seat or will Elizabeth May have to cry herself to sleep again ?. Poor Liz.