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I'm an evangelical Christian, member of the CPC, but presently & unjustly exiled to wander the political wilderness.
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Monday, December 01, 2008

Harper more popular that Chrétien

Does that post title sound weird to you? Well it's not... just check these numbers:

1997 General Election, votes for the Liberals: 4,994,277
2008 General Election, votes for the Conservatives: 5,205,334

That's right... MORE people voted Harper for PM in 2008 than for Chrétien in 1997... 211,057 more, for the record.

But I don't recall anyone talking about usurping democracy and removing Chrétien from office back then, do you?

Once again... LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE.

Oh, wait a minute, the people already did decide...

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3 Comments:

  • At Mon Dec 01, 01:12:00 p.m. EST, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Sorry. You have take to take those numbers as a percentage of the total electorate.

    Care to try again?

    Mike Wisniewski

     
  • At Mon Dec 01, 01:42:00 p.m. EST, Blogger Christian Conservative said…

    Sure thing Mike... 37.6% vs. 38.5%. That's a 0.9% difference, this time favouring JC over SH.

    Less than 1% makes the difference between a majority government, and getting overthrown by a bunch of sore losers.

    Only in Canada. Yes indeed, this one's gonna be one for the history textbooks.

     
  • At Mon Dec 01, 02:54:00 p.m. EST, Blogger Drew Costen said…

    It's really not about the popular vote though now, is it?

     

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