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...
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...
posted by Christian Conservative @ 12:35 p.m.
3 Comments:
At Mon Dec 01, 01:12:00 p.m. EST,
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,
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,
Drew Costen said…
It's really not about the popular vote though now, is it?
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