Categories: Andrew Coyne, Capital Read

Commies leading Traitors! A special investigation!

by Andrew Coyne on Friday, April 22, 2011 12:55pm - 107 Comments

Updated seat projections, reflecting Commies’ recent surge. Fascists still short of “absolute power,” Visitors going nowhere, and Traitors now the fourth party. Ewocs still without cigarettes.

Fascists Visitors Commies Traitors Ewocs Hermits
Lispop 149 68 52 39 0 0
Ekos 134 82 60 32 0 0
308.com 150 76 36 45 0 1
ElectionAlmanac.com 141 77 50 40 0 0
Calgary Grit 150 74 35 48 0 0
DemocraticSpace.com 148 77 39 43 0 0
TooCloseToCall.ca 145 74 47 42 0 0
CdnElectionWatch 150 75 40 42 0 1
AVERAGE 146 75 45 41 0 0


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  • Skinny Dipper

    For Canadians living in the Eastern, Atlantic, and Newfoundland time zones: play the game of Coyne. It's like some Lord-of-the-Rings/Dungeons-and-Dragons mish-mash. Become a Fascist, Visitor, Commie, Ewok, or Hermit. Report your progress. This game can be played on Twitter or Facebook.

  • Aview

    I agree with Don Bassilo..and give Polls(?) credence – indeed – at first I felt repulsion at the sight of the table and I did avoid it…so Mr Coyne, how to fix your table; PLEASE DELETE IT – and then PERM. DELETE. THANKS.

  • modster99

    Andrew,

    I really liked this bit, and hope you don't get dumped on for your use of 'traitors, visitors, etc.' I think it is pretty humorous, and shows how each party would like us to view their opposition.

    I would like to make a suggestion. You put out a piece a few days ago, that had the % of the possibility of each outcome. Would that be hard to update every couple of days, as the polls update? We won't hold you to the predictions, but it would be interesting to see which scenario actually ends up happening.

    Either way, you and Paul have been doing a bang up job. You can rest in a few days :)

  • http://burpnrun.blogspot.com Burpnrun

    Folks, call me paranoid, but I think there's A LOT more to the Coup/Coalition than meets the eye. And it's not good. For those interested in stopping the hijacking of OUR democracy, please give a gander at: "The Real Co-Conspirators Behind the Coup":
    http://burpnrun.blogspot.com/2011/04/real-co-cons…

    and tell me if I'm wrong. Please.

    • Chris B

      Wow… "Coup"…. I am not sure if acting strictly within the constitutional and legal framework constitutes a coup.

      It is Paranoid if they aren't actually out to get you. Put your tinfoil hat back on.

  • stewacide

    This 60% vs. 40% left-wing 'majority' isn't a fair comparison, since the various parties on the left can each narrow-cast a message and so cover more political territory. If there was one united party of the left it would undoubtedly leak votes on its right to the Conservatives (pulling them closer to the centre), while some on the left would leave mainstream politics. It's not hard at all to imagine a united-left party losing +10% of the electorate (right-leaning Liberals and Bloquistes) to the Conservatives, making them the clear majority party.

    When the right united it lost a great many voters at both its flanks, and I think the Alliance and PCs had a lot more in common than do the Liberals/NDP/Bloc/Greens.

    • OriginalEmily1

      Whenever parties merge there is always concern they will 'leak' some members….but if we never merged parties, we'd never change anything.

      It all works out in the end. Especially since left and right are dead terms these days.

  • trudohh8ter

    Huh. 60% of Canadians don't want Harper to be PM, so obviously that's democracy in action.

    Yet 76% don't want Iggy, 71% don't want Layton, no one even knows who, or what, May is, and 78% don't have any call about Duceppe. That, however, is proof positive that Canadians want the left to lead the country. Leftist ideology in action.

    • OriginalEmily1

      But those other parties are on what you call the left….so it's still 60-40 against the right.

  • ABHarperRegime

    Layton Mania !

    Jack won the debates for me, no other leader can touch Jack as an average Joe Canadian you can TRUST.

    I was considering voting Liberal(ABHarperRegime), but when Jack mentioned the Liberal leaders lack of attendance it really hit a nerve for me, as I've always thought to myself that I just cant picture Iggy sitting their in opposition if he looses the leadership?, I think he'll be long gone back to his American home.

    The hardest working MP in Parliament, bar none.

  • Turd_Ferguson

    Mark this down.

    My prediction is;

    Conservatives – 161
    Liberals – 67
    NDP – 41
    BQ – 38
    Ind – 1

  • Anonymous

    DemocraticSpace.com has new projections out showing Con majority — Fascists 157, Visitors 69, Traitors 42, Commies 39, Ewoks 0, Hermits 1. http://democraticspace.com/canada2011/ds-projecti…

  • http://halooverride.blogspot.com/ Halo_Override

    You must be fun at parties, deleted6252769.

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