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You won't see me talking about British inner politics - sometimes it's better to stay low on things you don't know. Take that advice. Thanks.
The conservatives would have done much better had they been able to leash some of the more extreme candidates. A lot of people really didn't want to vote Liberal, but just couldn't support the Conservatives after the comments made.
Election night on June 28th brought a very different result from the what the media and academic predictions had led everyone to believe. One explanation lies in the way in which most polling companies rolled "leaners" in together with truly "decided" voters. Many of those leaners obviously had second thoughts in the last few days of the campaign and decided not to vote Conservative. An indication that this could happen is seen in the last Compas poll that revealed that more respondents believed that a Liberal-led government (either majority or minority) would be better for the country than a Conservative-led government by a margin of 41% to 28%. It is interesting that the level of support for a Conservative-led government was 5 percentage points lower than those who said they were thinking of voting Conservative (33%).
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
You're right, it's not Iraq. Most Canadians, Frenchmen, and Germans don't agree with the war. At the same time, the liberal governments have still bee doing worse then the conservative. Their utopian beliefs, and welfare economics are failing.
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
The US has a shrinking unemployment which is already lower then the average in Europe by a ratio of about 2:1.
US unemployment is shrinking cuz the books are cooked - only people collecting unemployment insurance are considered "unemployed." So once their insurance runs out, they're no longer 'unemployed' whether they have a job or not. ...The homeless, bankrupt, barely surviving from one gig to the next just are not counted...
Also, the US national debt is over $8.2 trillion - and you are minimizing the importance of that because it's not as much as all the nations in the EU combined? Pul-leeze!
Why don't you tell me exactly what it is you would like to see? That way I know what to look for
The commonest, near-universal, interpretation of what happened was that a combination of last-minute Liberal fear-mongering and negative ads coupled with some Conservative bloopers sent New Democrats scuttling back to the Liberals for fear that Harper’s hordes were at the gates of government. - Richard Gwyn
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
Plus he couldn't really agree the invasion of Iraq was the wrong thing to do because he was part of it and it isn't in his nature to admit he is wrong... even if no one else besides Bush, Blair and a few other leaders agree with him.
Few agreed with Howard and Bush, yet they were both re-elected...That's strange.
I don’t know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him.
Quite simply, the majority of Canadian decided, at the last minute, that it was safer to stay with the devil we knew. Take it or leave it, I don't care. If you wish to continue in your delusion that you have a better grasp of Canadian internal politics than the people who actually live here, that is your perogative.
Originally posted by shoo
You won't see me talking about British inner politics - sometimes it's better to stay low on things you don't know. Take that advice. Thanks.
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
What your source seems to be saying is that the conservatives made campaign mistakes, or the liberals were better, not that people agreed with liberals more, or were too scared of a conservative policy.
Originally posted by Duzey
Quite simply, the majority of Canadian decided, at the last minute, that it was safer to stay with the devil we knew. Take it or leave it, I don't care. If you wish to continue in your delusion that you have a better grasp of Canadian internal politics than the people who actually live here, that is your perogative.
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
How many times have you talked about inner-American politics?
The BBC is respected worldwide. All reports I've seen show Schroeder is becoming increasingly unpopular. His economic promises haven't come through. Do you have something to show to the contrary?
:shk: spare me. Really now, People seem to have NO problem with commenting on US politics to the point of being critical over who we voted for to outright campaigning for one party to another. Yet, we dare not venture into sacred EU stuff eh?
PARIS (AFP) - An accusation by Australian Prime Minister John Howard that France was guilty of lingering "anti-Americanism" drew sharp words from Paris during a visit by the Australian foreign minister.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, standing next to his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer, told journalists he was "very, very surprised" to hear Howard's remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on the weekend.
He stressed that France and the United States were allies and would remain so, despite differences over the invasion of Iraq that have chilled transatlantic relations for the past two and a half years.
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