RogueBeaver
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« on: May 30, 2011, 11:10:15 AM » |
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This is all with hindsight. Without hindsight I'd probably vote Dief in '58 and Chretien 3 times.
1867: Conservative (Sir John A. Macdonald)
1872: Liberal (Edward Blake) 1874: Liberal (Alexander Mackenzie) 1878: Liberal (Alexander Mackenzie) 1882: Liberal (Edward Blake) 1887: Liberal (Edward Blake) 1891: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier) 1896: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier) 1900: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) 1904: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) 1908: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) 1911: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier)
1917: Unionist (Sir Robert Borden)
1921: Liberal (Mackenzie King) 1925: Liberal (Mackenzie King) 1926: Liberal (Mackenzie King) 1930: Liberal (Mackenzie King) 1935: Liberal (Mackenzie King) 1940: Liberal (Mackenzie King) 1945: Liberal (Mackenzie King) 1949: Liberal (Louis St. Laurent) 1953: Liberal (Louis St. Laurent) 1957: Liberal (Louis St. Laurent) 1958: Liberal (Lester Pearson) 1962: Liberal (Lester Pearson) 1963: Liberal (Lester Pearson) 1965: Liberal (Lester Pearson)
1968: PC (Bob Stanfield) 1972: PC (Bob Stanfield) 1974: PC (Bob Stanfield) 1979: PC (Joe Clark) 1980: PC (Joe Clark) 1984: PC (Brian Mulroney) 1988: PC (Brian Mulroney) 1993: Reform (Preston Manning) 1997: Reform (Preston Manning) 2000: Canadian Alliance (Stockwell Day) 2004: Conservative (Stephen Harper) 2006: Conservative (Stephen Harper) 2008: Conservative (Stephen Harper) 2011: Conservative (Stephen Harper)
1872-1887: I'll trust Blake to keep the anti-clerical fanatics under control. As a modern-day Blue Tory I'd be a classical liberal in those days, hence a Liberal vote. I like Macdonald but not his policies.
1891-1911: Ideological reasons.
1917: I'm voting for national unity, thanks.
1921-1957: Welfare state not my cuppa, but foreign, trade and anti-non-WASP attitudes of the Tories, plus their horrible leaders ensure Liberal votes from me.
1958-68: See above. Definitely not voting for a paranoid, anti-Catholic, anti-American incompetent demagogue.
1968-84: Hell would freeze over before I would ever consider voting for PET.
1984/8: I like Mulroney and his policies. Liberals need to grow and not have a bunch of jumped-up JDs as the face of their party.
1993: No to squishiness (Liberals), incompetence (PCs), socialism and separatism.
1997/2000: See above.
2004-2011: I'm a Tory activist, therefore I vote Tory.
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