Word comes out today that the Green candidate is throwing her support to the Libs in a riding where:
- the Lib candidate finished a distant 3rd in 2006, a full 43 points behind the victorious Bloc (and indeed less than 9 points ahead of the fifth-place Greens);
- the Libs haven't come particularly close to winning since their 1980 Quebec near-sweep; and
- the incumbent wasn't even a Con MP, meaning that it couldn't be justified as a "stop Harper" vote even if there was some prayer of influencing the outcome.
So let's ask the question: using the standards applied by Danielle Moreau, is there a single riding outside Alberta where one can justify a Green vote? And if not, why should voters be more generous with support for the Greens than their own candidates?
No comments:
Post a Comment