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How the election was won and lost: An inside look

July 12th, 2013 · 7 Comments

I know that provincial election seems like it was years ago, but the lessons it taught are worth contemplating. I got to hang out extensively in Vancouver-Fraserview to see the ground war in action, which I wrote about here.

Something for the NDP to ponder while they are reviewing what went wrong.

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  • Bill Lee

    The ‘single page’ link
    http://www.vanmag.com/print/7806
    (it pauses in a single page format for printing, in the pause, you can do as you like. )
    so readers may read to the end which they might not if they have to have to hit “next page” several times to read the 4 parts.

  • Bill Lee

    Hmm.
    QUOTE ‘Faced with such indifference, Anton-battling to retain the Liberals’ hold on this riding of Vancouver-Fraserview-has her answer ready: “All right, if you don’t like the party, consider voting just for me, the candidate. I live on the south side. I helped fight for this area when I was a city councillor. I’ll make sure a seniors’ centre gets built here.” ENDquote

    South side?
    6000 Blenheim at 44th ain’t the typical south side place, laying behind Crofton House school.
    More like North Southlands than the Canadian Finnish Rest Home 10 kilometres east at the bottom of Victoria Drive and the Fraser river.

    She is 7 km west of the riding, not that she preferred that, as she had earlier tried the riding of Vancouver Quilchena with her “kind of people”

    Will she move into the riding? Some houses are priced like Kerrisdale?

    Can we hope to see her pedalling her bike (she “went across Canada” on a bike) to eateries at Champlain Mall, Victoria Drive South or the bottom of Main and Fraser with a quadralingual sandwich board saying “The MLA’s Office is open”?

    Did she ever do much with her UVic math degree?

  • Everyman

    @Bill Lee 2
    Other than teach in Africa or go on to become Crown Counsel?

  • brilliant

    The NDP lost because nobody was interested in their platform and nobody liked Adrian Dix.

  • Bill

    The NDP lost because they have become the party of the public sector unions and no development environmentalists. Private sector union members may not like the Liberals but right now their interests are more aligned with Liberals because of their focus on jobs. There has been a change in alignment as it is more now Makers versus Takers rather than Right versus Left.

  • babalu1

    Great friend of mine, Collarbone O’Hare, who is a big baseball fan and a Social Democrat said about the NDP loss (Dix and Sahota are sports fans, so, for the sake of Collarebone, I hope they are listening): “Hey, man, you took too many pitches. You should have swung at a few.”
    Nuff said.

  • Kyle

    Here is my analysis: “5 Reasons why the BC NDP lost on May 14” http://257vancouver.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/five-reasons-why-the-bc-ndp-lost-on-may-14-2013/

    I believe that the single biggest factor was the NDP Motto of “change” which divided public opinion. See the article.