All the parties, including the NDP, courted Bill Blair. Just sayin'.
Also, from what I've seen in a lot of ridings, the vote totals for the NDP and Conservatives didn't change much or at all in this election compared to 2011. What changed was the Liberals got a whole slew of NEW votes -- so it wasn't really vote splitting in a lot of cases. The Liberals shed a total of 2 million voters since the 2008 election. about a million in that election and another million in 2011 -- people who didn't turn to another party, they just didn't vote. I think they just came back. Not to say there wasn't some strategic voting going on, but it doesn't explain what really happened.
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Date: 2015-10-21 11:12 am (UTC)Also, from what I've seen in a lot of ridings, the vote totals for the NDP and Conservatives didn't change much or at all in this election compared to 2011. What changed was the Liberals got a whole slew of NEW votes -- so it wasn't really vote splitting in a lot of cases. The Liberals shed a total of 2 million voters since the 2008 election. about a million in that election and another million in 2011 -- people who didn't turn to another party, they just didn't vote. I think they just came back. Not to say there wasn't some strategic voting going on, but it doesn't explain what really happened.