Quebec General Election 2012 (4th September)

[Talleyrand]

Question- Does Charest identify with the federal Conservatives or the federal Liberals? I know he was a PC Minister, 1993 survivor, and leader, but does he still hold ties with the Tories?

[Talleyrand]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/22/quebec-liberals-take-lead-over-pq-after-weekend-leaders-debate-poll/

Liberals now on 35%, with PQ at 29% and CAQ at 24% (QS has 9%). Apparently a 63/125 majority on a uniform swing. Also, Francoise David was voted the winner of the debate with 40%. Is this an outlier or does it represent actual movement? If so, what would be the reason(s)?


 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1244499--charest-family-tombstone-vandalized-in-sherbrooke

Several tombstones, including that of Charest's uncle were vandalized in Sherbrooke. His grandparents' tombstones are located in the same cemetery, but were left untouched.

[Talleyrand]

How's it looking in Sherbrooke? Is Jean Charest pretty screwed? There have been two polls released showing him down double digits so I wanted to know if he's seriously in danger or if he could still pull it out.

[Talleyrand]

59 PQ, 30 PLQ, 33 CAQ, 2 QS.

I hope PQ+QS+ON (possibly) is less than PLQ+CAQ.

[Talleyrand]

Someone asked for links to livestreams earlier.

I'm not sure when they'll go live, but here they are:

CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebecvotes2012

CTV: http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.941210

Is there any website where election results can be seen on the whole riding map as they come in? I remember there was a website with such a map during the Alberta election.

[Talleyrand]

Its CBC which does that, but their result page isn't up yet.

Thanks!

What Max said. The map will appear on their site once the polls close. No sense in having a giant empty map on the site for hours.

Lol. Then they could portray the election as nailbiter since all parties would be virtually tied.

[Talleyrand]

She's already promised an early election if a minority. Once the corruption inquiry reports... that'll do the work for her.

Could that boot the Liberals from the official opposition too, possibly?