Strategic voting

The election smurfs have been busy as can be festooning the landscape with red and orange election signs. The blue ones we just take for granted; after all, Larry Miller is the home-boy who has actually, personally, using nothing but his bare hands and his necktie, pulled calves out of the arse end of a cow.

That's something the electorate takes seriously in these parts. Look at Bill Murdoch's career if you don't believe me.

But change is in the wind...

There are concession roads I travel these days where the red and orange signs outnumber the blue. But, given our massively dysfunctional first-past-the-post electoral system, does that mean we can unseat Big Steve?

Yes, but only if the orange guy makes a conscious decision to direct his acolytes to Kimberly Love.

Otherwise, even though the vast majority of local voters voted for someone else, Larry's off to Ottawa again.

Latest polls show Grey-Bruce could toss Harper minion in election

With six days to go before the vote, the latest polls show the Liberal Party only one point behind the Harper Gang.

That's close enough that the cynics and the woebegone and the pot-heads might find it worth their while to get off the couch on the 19th...

As in, hey, wake up, we might actually pull this off!

A couple of months ago I would have considered that an impossibility.

Larry's always been golden in this rural riding, where your street cred depends largely on how many times you've pulled a calf out of her mommy's hind end with nothing but your bare hands and a neck-tie.

The times they are a changing...

Vote Kimberly Love on October 19!