Quebec: April 7, 2014

[Marokai Backbeat]

The PQ's rhetoric is often heated, but in practice, in 2014, they are little more than boring center-leftist bureaucrats and their cultural politics barely goes further than symbolic. They're certainly not the devil they're made out to be. How far could they possibly go from the status quo, anyway? They have no chance at independence; they'll poke the fire at some pet issue once or twice a year and that's about the extent of it. And deep down, the PQ knows this.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Considering that the PQ's reputation for being maybe just a little bit racist has clearly damaged it electorally over the years (even if it hasn't cost votes directly, it sure helps to drive up minority turnout for the PLQ), it's weird that they don't seem to have done anything to address it. Of course that's partly because... you know... but you'd think they would at least have learned to be a bit more... presentable.

It is amazing to me how little they seem to care about broadening their appeal. Pretty much the only reason I keep thinking the PLQ will end up winning this is because the PQ seems so insistent on pissing different people off at random. It's like they're determined to find a way to lose.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Are there any reliable stats for how younger people voted in 2012?

[Marokai Backbeat]

So, Pauline Marois is just a crap premier, or the crappiest premier?

Crap premier, crappiest campaigner.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Truly the greatest tragedy of this election is that Léo Bureau-Blouin has lost re-election in Laval-des-Rapides. He was too gorgeous for Quebec to handle.