Check out this article from The Tyee - this is the type of talk that must have the NDP freakin' right now. Are the NDP about the get squeezed out by the Greens and the Liberals? Will a consilidation on the left defeat the Conservatives or can they use they newly minted left-leaning leader of the Liberals to rush to the centre?
No doubt things will be interesting for the next 3-4 months.
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The short answer is yes the NDP is going to get squeezed. As to whether that means trouble for Harper, you are more qualified to answer that than I am.
Posted by Greg | December 7, 2006 1:57 PM
Posted on December 7, 2006 13:57
The NDP gets squeezed only if the LPC moves left or somehow broadens itself on either side of whatever arbitrary point it currently occupies on the spectrum. That either yields or weakens the right side of the LPC bandwidth.
Posted by lrC | December 7, 2006 3:02 PM
Posted on December 7, 2006 15:02
The NDP is getting squeezed because there is a building “anyone but Harper” vibe growing among soft NDP voters. At this point Dion doesn’t have to move at all to pick up a bunch of NDP votes.
Posted by Greg | December 7, 2006 3:30 PM
Posted on December 7, 2006 15:30
“At this point Dion doesn’t have to move at all to pick up a bunch of NDP votes.” You blame this on Harper but I think this would have happened regardless of what a Conservative gov’t did - it is just that it the gov’t is Conservative that causes this.
Posted by Greg Staples | December 7, 2006 3:46 PM
Posted on December 7, 2006 15:46
No Greg, I love ya man, but you are wrong. If Harper had maintained his “I’m a centrist” persona beyond the election, I am convinced this movement would not be happening. Once Harper moved off his five points, he moved away from made him successful.
Posted by Greg | December 7, 2006 4:14 PM
Posted on December 7, 2006 16:14
This is about the Libs moving left.
Environment isn’t just a concern, but seems to be their signature plank
Rethinking Afgn
Dion himself calling tax cuts “useless”, mocking justice programs as putting “teenagers in jail”, using far left terminology re the CPC.
A sharp tack left for the Libs indeed.
What I find amusing is the “we can have it all” attitude in the link, saying that they’ll move left and still take votes from the conservatives.
There’s plenty there for the well funded conservative machine to exploit.
Move left, fine.
But the libs just gave up their “Red Tories”.
The whole right side is wide open.
Posted by Chester | December 7, 2006 5:55 PM
Posted on December 7, 2006 17:55
For a while there over the past couple of years it’s looked like the NDP were pursuing strategies they thought might permanently yield a share of the LPC vote, with dreams of supplanting the LPC in Canadian federal politics. It won’t surprise me if Dion and the LPC move to squash the NDP utterly and succeed.
Posted by lrC | December 8, 2006 8:35 PM
Posted on December 8, 2006 20:35