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School daze
February 4, 2007
Randall Probably believes that if Svend, after stealing a $50,000 ring, can place a distant 2nd than he can at least place 3rd.
Japanese parrallel voting system rocks.
(301 riding MP + 100 Party List MP from 5 regions with min. 5% support threshold in each region, that way GP would have 1 MP in each region, and BQ would have only party list MP from the province of Quebec but nowhere else.
Randall Garrison will be facing the same obstacles as any non-Liberal candidate in Vancouver Centre, the hardened attachment of the ridings non-union work force to the Liberal Party. Even with a high profile candidate like Robinson, the NDP was unable to penetrate the Liberal nite club vote.
On the contrary, many of these people consider Robinson's earnest idealism and tireless championing of controversial causes to be an embarassment and a downer. Hedy's costume ball approach to identifying with the riding's LGBT vote is much more fashionable. But really, it's not Fry, it's the Liberal Party, and while her personal touch might add another 500 votes, it's really an almost pure party vote.