Election 2008 - Débat des chefs en français

[yaiven]

The following are my impressions on last night's (Oct. 1st) Leaders Debate. This first debate was in French. The English one will be held tonight (Oct. 2nd) at 9:00pm.

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[yaiven]

Like you, I'm also more fiscally conservative and socially liberal. In fact, if it weren't for the socially conservative aspect, in the past I may have voted for the Conservative party. They still have a chance to get my vote in the future too, but they would likely have to change their social policies to the point of alienating the religious right from whom a majority of the former Reform supporters come from.

It's such a shame that we have to be torn from ideology for the purposes of strategic voting. That's frustrated me since I became old enough to vote. I might post an entry later regarding different types of representative systems, but I think most people who understand it agree that FPTP is obsolete and doesn't add anything. The issues are just:

a) making people take a look at better options rather than being afraid of anything different

and

b) deciding how your vote(s) are represented in terms of the leader, the ideology, and the region in which you live.

As far as I can see it, there are a lot of options, it's just a matter of convincing people to change.