Agreed. Could you imagine if hospital care was means-tested lol.
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Not dog whistling the anti science crowd by saying there's "some" evidence (there isn't) that it might not be safe.
It's really not reasonable, it's the same language and "skepticism" from anti vaxxers. We shouldn't be tolerant of this from political leaders just because we kinda like them.
Elizabeth May is from the old school granola hippie crowd in Victoria, she's a great legal mind but not scientific.
I think the only people looking at riding projections or riding history are us nerds who discuss politics on lemmy. I think strategic voting in the general public is very real, but it seems to more take the form of "I normally vote NDP and will vote Liberal this time" rather than digging into the politics of their riding.
who cares why, why announce it lmao
Trudeau and PP both have a history of wearing ethnic costumes, but it's just funny to me that Trudeau actually looks good in them and PP looks creepy since he's such an inauthentic alien
Squinty lizard-person is making fun of the candidate that looks like a real person?
Ah, yes, it's because she's a woman and not because she sold our province to the Americans
Something I've wondered is how the poll aggregators apply the vote % to regional breakdowns / seat estimates. Are they using the voting patterns from previous elections, or is there polling data broken down by seat?
So if voting patterns changed significantly without overall vote % changing much, the results could still be very very different, correct?
Federal NDP candidates running in Alberta are not ANDP
Though technically true, in this party-driven system, the MPs are kept in-line with what the PM wants. In theory you're voting for an MP to represent you, but it does feel like in practice you vote for an MP to represent their leader.
Am I literally voting for Carney? No. Am I voting for the guy that will get Carney in office? Yeah
No.