What scares me about the 2008 federal election
- Harper
- That not everyone who is eligible to vote has acceptable governmental ID to vote. (variations: not being able to afford a passport so they can vote; not being able to afford, or otherwise need, a driver’s license so they can vote; it’s easier to buy cigarettes and alcohol than to vote)
- Election day is scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving.
- Some ridings just had a by-election—will people go out and vote again?
- “I’m voting for x because that’s who I always vote for” (variations: “I’m voting for x because I’ve voted for x since y.”; “I’m voting for x because I’ve voted for x since (2008 – y).”
- “The US election has more of an impact to us.”
- “z is worse than the Conservatives, you know”
- “What about when z was in office and [insert stuff they screwed up]”
- the possibility of the Conservatives getting a majority government with a 30-something percent majority
- that we’ll probably be screwed either way
