You should always delete all links from spammers. Choosing to keep the comment from the spammer if it's clearly a real person is up to you.
And as a Canadian: Uh, yeah, we use the term "tactical voting". And personally, I'm ecstatic when NDP voters go Liberal, because that keeps both the Canadian Reform Alliance Party (and yes, that really was their name, acronym and all, and they've since changed their name so that their acronym overlaps the communists) and the NDP out of power.
And since those two things are unambiguously good things, tactical voting of that sort is always a plus.
My problem with Canadian politics is twofold:
First, because I live where Ed Broadbent was MP for so many years, my vote is irrelevant, the NDP candidate is going to get in.
Second: I have no party that represents my views (stay the fuck out of my personal life, don't run a deficit without a damn good reason, tax burdens should be proportionate to ability to pay tax burden, there are certain services that can only effectively be provided by a government and so those services should damn well be provided PROPERLY by the government) and so I'm left with tactical voting as my only option. When the four parties are the separatists, the socialists, the national socialists, and the Liberals, that sadly makes me red by default.
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Date: 2006-Nov-02, Thursday 03:49 (UTC)And as a Canadian: Uh, yeah, we use the term "tactical voting". And personally, I'm ecstatic when NDP voters go Liberal, because that keeps both the Canadian Reform Alliance Party (and yes, that really was their name, acronym and all, and they've since changed their name so that their acronym overlaps the communists) and the NDP out of power.
And since those two things are unambiguously good things, tactical voting of that sort is always a plus.
My problem with Canadian politics is twofold:
First, because I live where Ed Broadbent was MP for so many years, my vote is irrelevant, the NDP candidate is going to get in.
Second: I have no party that represents my views (stay the fuck out of my personal life, don't run a deficit without a damn good reason, tax burdens should be proportionate to ability to pay tax burden, there are certain services that can only effectively be provided by a government and so those services should damn well be provided PROPERLY by the government) and so I'm left with tactical voting as my only option. When the four parties are the separatists, the socialists, the national socialists, and the Liberals, that sadly makes me red by default.