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C'mon Written by hugo chavez on 2006-12-30 23:49:12 Easy there Jack all this talk and the SP will get a majority and then the real policies come out. Promoting a little economic stimulus will not hurt anyone. If done properly will actually help people because a job is better then a government cheque.    I know the NDP is governing well when the right is pissed off and far left is whining. It means they are doing the right thing. Pragmatism is the hallmark of a good government, remember POGG ?    The NDP hasn't been perfect but they are much better then the alternative. Not to mention, a vote for the Green's is a vote for the SP.

Where do we go from here? Written by warnock on 2006-12-31 19:01:26 I think that anyone who follows Sask politics knows that the NDP is going to lose the next election, no matter what. The indications are there in the Weuburn bye-election and the last two polls. No one can really beliieve that the NDP can overcome the 48 to 31 percent deficit in recent polls. If you talk to people who are generally apolitical, they wil tell you the NDP has been in office too long and it is time for a change. They do not fear the Sask Party. How could they be that much different from the NDP?   If the NDP suffers a major defeat, as seems likely at this time, it could be a disaster for them. Given the trend to the right in North America, it may mean that they will not get back in government again. This is not far fetched. Here in SK we can see that in the last two federal elections, the vote for the NDP has dropped to 25%, which seems to be their hard core supporters. I have already met many people who have always voted for the NDP who say they are going to support the Liberals in the next federal election, and who blame Layton for bringing down the Liberal government and giving us the Harper government.   So it seems to me that the real political question is where should we go from here? The Greens in SK are very different from the new federal party, changed in the past five years. The federal Greens proudly procaliam that they are "neighter left nor right" indicating that they see themselves between the CRAP party and the NDP. This is absolutely no alternative. Here, the SK Greens are the only party defending the welfare state, as well as demanding ecological politics. But are they a real alternative hers?

Where do we go from here? Written by warnock on 2006-12-31 19:01:29 I think that anyone who follows Sask politics knows that the NDP is going to lose the next election, no matter what. The indications are there in the Weuburn bye-election and the last two polls. No one can really beliieve that the NDP can overcome the 48 to 31 percent deficit in recent polls. If you talk to people who are generally apolitical, they wil tell you the NDP has been in office too long and it is time for a change. They do not fear the Sask Party. How could they be that much different from the NDP?   If the NDP suffers a major defeat, as seems likely at this time, it could be a disaster for them. Given the trend to the right in North America, it may mean that they will not get back in government again. This is not far fetched. Here in SK we can see that in the last two federal elections, the vote for the NDP has dropped to 25%, which seems to be their hard core supporters. I have already met many people who have always voted for the NDP who say they are going to support the Liberals in the next federal election, and who blame Layton for bringing down the Liberal government and giving us the Harper government.   So it seems to me that the real political question is where should we go from here? The Greens in SK are very different from the new federal party, changed in the past five years. The federal Greens proudly procaliam that they are "neighter left nor right" indicating that they see themselves between the CRAP party and the NDP. This is absolutely no alternative. Here, the SK Greens are the only party defending the welfare state, as well as demanding ecological politics. But are they a real alternative hers?

What's going on here? Written by warnock on 2006-12-31 19:12:50 I punch one key wrong -- after a couple of Irish whiskeys -- and what happens is I am cut off and for some reason I cannot edit what I have written and it appears duplicated as above?     In any case, what are we to do? As some know, I was a candidate for the New Green Alliance in the last two provincial elections, in Regina Elphinstone. This is Allan Blakeney's riding, where he would regularly win with 70% of the vote. In 1991 Lingenfelter got 4600 voter here and in 2003 Warren McCall got 1800. In fact, only 50% of those elegible to vote were on the voters list. And only 37% of those eligible to vote went to the polls. This does not surprise me at all. As I walked the riding, giving my flyers to the residents, people told me "This should be the NDP platform." But it wasn't, by a long shot. What does this tell us?  Let us open the debate about what we should be doing now. Just surrender?

Written by hugo chavez on 2007-01-02 19:39:36 Jack,  The social dynamics of that riding has change significantly in the last 35 years, that is main reason for the decline in voter turn out. That and a general apathy towards politics.  I can not for see any significant movement to the SGP, they are too radical and are full of democratic Marxists. I imagine given major discontent with the SNDP and a fear of the SP , would lead to voter moving to the SLP. Now that also is improbable.    You oppose the NDP because they are too centrist, yet the only other party capable of forming government is full of neo-cons. I think a man of your education could quickly deduce that by not voting for a party that is too middle of the road for you, you would be electing a party on the complete other side of your belief system.     What's worse a wishy washy NDP government or a Neo-COn Saskatchewan party government ?

Regina Elphinstone Written by hugo chavez on 2007-01-04 12:13:47 Jack,  Check Sask elections, Warren got over 3,000 votes for voter turnout over 60%.  To answer you imminent demise of the S-NDP, polls were very similar in 2003 but the election machine pulled it off. Although, a major defeat might be the best for the party to clean out the deadwood and Marxists.

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