That’s loser talk
I’ve heard and read a number of Liberals, NDP and Green Party members lamenting about the results of the election and pointing out the fact that more people didn’t vote for the Conservatives than did.
All true.
What the journalists interviewing these party members are leaving out though is the obvious follow up question, “Uh, Mr./Mrs. Liberal/NDP/Green, more people didn’t vote for you than did too, in fact even more so.”
No such question though.
Odd.
Crossposted - Spink About It
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If you were to ask Canadians what their favourite colour was and these were the results:
38%: Blue
26%: Dark Red
10%: Light Red
20%: Autumn Red
6%: Firetruck Red
Wouldn't you say that the majority of the country prefers the colour red?
Canadians, by over 60%, indicated that they preferred left of centre parties. So I don't think that the journalist' questions are all that puzzling, or why they don't bother to point out the followup question you raised.
What they should instead of asking is, if these political parties are so passionate about their ideology, why wouldn't they unite as a coalition government.
I simply saw this come up in a lot of media and when I was listening to Liberal Martha Hall Findlay go on ad nauseum to CBC about the horror of the Conservatives having more people vote against them than for them, I was waiting for the obvious question, "Uh Martha, even more people didn't feel your Party was worth supporting". Seemed like an obvious point to me but clearly the journalists didn't think it was worth asking either. Could be just me. I found it...odd.
I would make the point though that in the not-so-distant past supporters of the NDP and Green Party were likely Liberal supporters. The influx of support for the federal NDP and Green parties is a relatively recent development, politically.
I don't think that there is anything suspect in asking how the Conservative Party can feel it has a mandate to execute a conservative agenda when the large majority of Canadians disagree with that course.
I mean, it's not as though there was a second conservative leaning party that lost but if combined with the Harper government would at least provide some semblance of justification for a conservative approach.
To me it seems rather ridiculous that a government which over 60% of the country does not share an ideology with would consider themselves to have a strong mandate.
That's a good press question.