Election Watching

I may or may not update this as the election results come in. Popular vote in the Atlantic region has the Liberals and Conservatives down, and NDP, Green and Independents up...go figure. I have a feeling this will be a popular theme, and yet, I don't think the seats will change accordingly. I suspect after this election there will be even more calls for a change to the voting system to reflect the popular vote.

Its particularly telling that Rick Mercer is part of the CBC official election coverage. I sure don't foresee the likes of Jonathan Stewart or Stephen Colbert being on call when the results come in on Obama v. McCain.

21:44 EDT
Elizabeth May paraphrase 'If voters aged 5 and up counted, I would have won in a landslide'. There are positives and negatives to take from this.

Northern Ontario swinging past Liberal to Green and NDP? Oh wait, basing these claims on 30-200 total votes...One comment though, that the region depends on diesel and so is opposed to the Liberal carbon tax plan? I'm pretty sure 3 of the 5 big positive movers on those shitty markets today were mining/metals companies, the little man working for those companies has nothing to worry about. Not to mention that many of those metals are integral to the new 'green' technologies.

22:11 EDT
Counting the Prairies now, no shocks out there. Liberals are in some tighter than expected races, particularly in Toronto, where I think I heard Conservatives haven't held a seat in 20 years. Getting a little scared that the Cons could actually make a majority.

22:44 EDT
Interesting discussion on the local cable outlet for Rogers on why this election is even taking place. It hasn't gone so far as to suggest the waste of money should it come out as the predicted Conservative minority, but they have touched on Harper's motivations in declaring parliament 'dysfunctional'.

23:25 EDT
Apparently blogger is overloaded right now. One last comment on the use of Twitter on not just CBC, but any network when it comes to election coverage: cut it out. I'll be the first to admit that just about anyone can go out and create a blog. But it at least requires some ability to piece together ideas and thoughts.

Twitter updates are about on par with the text messages scrolling across the bar on MuchMusic vote in music video segments. They work for status updates...not for informed commentary. Get rid of them.