• pedz@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      Oh I’ll continue to say it because it depends where. In this specific case it was indeed the case. However my riding had 99% chances to go to the Liberals, it did, and my vote wouldn’t have made any difference.

      • If everyone who voted Liberal in your riding thought that, and decided not to vote for that reason, then I think the results would have been very different.

        I sometimes wonder if something similar happened further south last November - too many voters were lukewarm on Harris and sat out instead of voting, figuring that Harris would win anyways. And we all know how that turned out.

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      21 hours ago

      When people say a vote make no difference, they mean thry don’t trust any candidate would make change in their daily life

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      18 hours ago

      Tell that to the vast majority of ridings where it doesn’t really matter :/

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    We really need proportional representation… IMO it’s good that the riding isn’t conservative anymore, but I still wish that ~half the population of that riding didn’t just essentially elected no one.

    Listen, betting on which horse will when the campaign race is no basis for a system of government.