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Christopher Browne wrote:
> The world rejoiced as tempest@gmail.com (Joel) wrote:
>> "Brian Bagnall" <bbagnall@mts.net> wrote in message
>> news:<nYhMc.516$tK5.3394@news1.mts.net>...
>>> "Siobhan Medeiros" <sbm2004@telus.net> wrote in message
>>> news:baa03ba8.0407222027.d7fd38c@posting.google.com...
>>>>
>>>> There's a big reason why Fox News isn't seen up here.  It's
>>>> because no one wants it except for a few brainwashed rightoids.
>>>
>>> Idiot! By *definition*, 50% of the population is right of center
>>> and 50% is left of center.
>>>
>>> - B
>>
>> Brian, didn't you even gander at the election results from last
>>  month? Here's a quick recap for you
>>
>> This is popular vote:
>>
>> Liberal 36.7%
>> Conservative 29.6%
>> Bloq 12.4%
>> NDP 15.7%
>> Other 5.6%
>>
>> From cbc [http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/]
>>
>> Now consider that the Bloq has a platform similar in polital standing
>> as the liberals you're looking at 30% right and 70% at varying
>> degrees
>> of left.
>>
>> 50/50 my ass
>
> What this says is that 29.6% voted in a fashion clearly "right of
> centre," 15.7 voted in a fashion clearly "left of centre," and that
> very nearly 50% voted in the "centre" positions.
>
> Reality is that the Liberals are _not_ "left of centre," as far as
> Canadians are concerned; they _are_ the centre.
>
> You may consider them left of _your_ position, but since Canadians
> keep electing Liberals, they can't be too far left of the Canadians
> that vote...


Although I don't like the guy, there's a poster here named "Che" who cross
posts to US groups and even he has to explain what he refers to as "The
Right Wing Liberals of British Columbia".

That must confuse our American cousins in a big way.

Martin is a "right of centre" Liberal compared to Chretien, and Stephen
Harper is said to want his Conservative Party to be "more Centrist" to gain
votes in the inevitable election.

By the way, even the Bloc was formed from the PC Party by majority and a few
Liberals.

Is there any wonder why the only political party that hasn't moved off
course is the despicable NDP, under Layton?

Anyone who says that Canada's political party's are black and white, is a
person who lives in their own world.

Harper's Conservatives plan on being more like Belinda, and Martin's already
there because he's not JC.

It's getting more difficult to tell the enemy from the friend.