2015 Federal Election Thread (fka Who Gets Your X?)

[sputnik]

With two weeks to go. Who is getting your vote?

Lets try and keep this discussion a little less "Toma" and stick with explaining why you are voting for the party and not why the other guys are evil overlords or left-wing nutjobs.

Lets keep this positive and productive.

[403ep3]

the least evil.. conservatives

[Sugarphreak]

..

[jdmXSI]

Either Liberal or Conservatieves. Have yet to decide.

[bbbc]

Conservatives, the least spending and won't raise taxes

[Dirty_SOHC]

The cure is worse than the disease - The least evil.. Conservatives

[nickyh]

The party I think won't screw the country completely, Conservatives.
I still feel we are in for a minority gov. lead by the NDP.

[BandW]

I won't be voting.

[Kloubek]

Well, not NDP or Green.

On the fence between Liberals and Conservatives. Leaning towards Liberal.

[sputnik]

Originally posted by Kloubek
Leaning towards Liberal.

That's where I am leaning as well.

I like the Liberal CCB (Child Care Benefit) plan as opposed to the multi-tiered taxable system currently in place. I am generally a big fan of simplicity.

I like the 1.5% income tax cut. Who doesn't? I don't feel sorry for people pulling in over $200k. Sorry. Not sorry.

I could care less about deficits when interest rates are low and the economy is slumping. Harper ran deficits after the 2008/9 economic collapse and most likely will in a minority government as well. So I can't hold that against the LPC.

Legalization. Emptying prisons of potheads and cutting off gang income seems like a good idea. Might as well legalize a few other drugs along the way. Spend the money educating and protecting kids instead. Let adults do whatever they want to their own bodies.

Not a fan of C51, but it seems like the LPC are willing to make some major amendments to the bill.

Not a fan of the F35 program. Sounds like we have dumped billions just to study spending billions more for a jet that cost considerably more than a Eurofighter. I have nothing against stopping the practice of throwing good money after bad.

I dunno. Harper isn't giving me and confidence

[Feruk]

Liberal.

After C-51 and the fact that Conservatives can't balance a budget (except by accident), I just don't see why they deserve my vote.

[frizzlefry]

Now that its becoming more clear that the NDP don't stand a chance I don't feel the need to vote strategically Liberal so I'm leaning towards conservative. I like Kent Hehr but if he looses maybe he will run for mayor. I'd be good with that.

[timdog]

Conservatives win on the economic front but i can't morally vote for them. Liberals for me.

[msommers]

Leaning Liberal.

[Maxx Mazda]

Originally posted by BandW
I won't be voting.

How many thousands of people over the years have died in order to gain the right to vote? The fact you can't set aside 10 minutes of your day once every 4 years is something you should be ashamed of...

I already voted at the office in Beacon Hill this weekend to avoid the rush on Election Day. I was in and out in about 3 minutes.

Now somebody help me down off this high horse already...

[FullFledgedYYC]

Originally posted by Maxx Mazda


How many thousands of people over the years have died in order to gain the right to vote? The fact you can't set aside 10 minutes of your day once every 4 years is something you should be ashamed of...

I already voted at the office in Beacon Hill this weekend to avoid the rush on Election Day. I was in and out in about 3 minutes.

Now somebody help me down off this high horse already...

Why do you care? For all we know that's one less NDP voter. Of course you can twist this to say "Or maybe he was that one more Conservative voter we needed"

Whatever.... It's his choice.

[Go4Long]

Not voting "in protest" is the single stupidest concept ever dreamt up by entrenched parties to maintain power.

Looking for more information from the CON platform. Still tossing and turning between them and LIB. Like some of the stuff in the LIB platform, dislike some of it.

[redblack]

CONservatives for me and my whole family

[CanmoreOrLess]

As most of Beyond is leaning towards Conservative tastes, I'll go Liberal. The opposite always works out best here on Beyond.

My hope is Toma is voting Conservative just to prove my point.

[CanmoreOrLess]

Originally posted by Maxx Mazda


How many thousands of people over the years have died in order to gain the right to vote? The fact you can't set aside 10 minutes of your day once every 4 years is something you should be ashamed of...

I already voted at the office in Beacon Hill this weekend to avoid the rush on Election Day. I was in and out in about 3 minutes.

Now somebody help me down off this high horse already...

Who is to say all those who died, died for our good future. History unwritten is unknown. Perhaps we'd still be voting had everyone stayed at home. Switzerland turned out fairly well overall. Who is to say Germany would not have been fine rulers of Europe post WWI and Germany/Japan in WWII? Voting cause some guy got his liver blown 20 feet away from his nut sack is not the reason to vote. My grandfather did not mention voting as his reason for going to war.