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Not in favour of strategic voting.

Posted on October 04, 2008

I m not a fan of strategic voting. ??Strategic voters vote insincerely for a party in order to deny a worse outcome from occurring. ??The downside, of course, is that the result of a strategic vote can be be much worse than the outcome originally feared. Having lived through the election of Bob Rae s NDP in 1990 in Ontario, as a result of strategic voting, I am personally unwilling to endorse any platform or leader that I couldn t live with for five years. ??That s why I found Elizabeth May s call for voters to elect any government but a Conservative government this past ...

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ontario , toronto