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To: Graystone who wrote (2946)	8/9/2003 3:44:19 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37548

Hello Graystone, A short break from some relaxing back breaking labour... sweat sweat :o) Anyway 2 points: 1) the older of my two younger sisters is VP at a good sized multinational and is very good at what she does. She is what should be an informed voter. Her reaction to my voting Alliance (reform) was don't tell me he's going to vote for those racists. A can assure you she has never read more of any party's platform than is served out by media sound bites. I know many folks like this. While this only anecdotal I believe it to be accurate. Hence my 'visceral reaction' comment. 2) Do Canadians express what they feel by voting, When what you feel is based upon sound bites and your options are limited..... I hate to say this at the risk of sounding smug or elitist but I fear most Canadian voters don't make informed logical choices. Have some fun and do your own 'Jay Leno' poll on why folks vote the way they do. Not here on Si but in the real world. Make it a good sampling and surprise yourself at the regurgitated sound bites you hear. Balance this off against the well thought out responses you receive by folks that have actually read platforms. regards Kastel Democracy... I fear I get too often what other people deserve :o)

To: Graystone who wrote (2946)	8/11/2003 12:43:05 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37548

A recurring assertion in your posts is that there are planks in the Alliance platform that are objectionable to voters to the east of Manitoba. Does that mean that voters in the west think in a fundamentally different way from voters in the east? If so, is that not a recipe for separation? Or, does it mean that voters in the west have a different perception of the platform than voters in the east? That voters in the west, motivated perhaps by their alienation, actually listened to the people who wrote the Alliance platform, hearing it from the horse’s mouth. Whereas voters elsewhere heard it through the filter of the established media, the carriers of political correctness, for whom accountability to taxpayers is anathema? To the extent that this discussion was ever profitable at the abstract level of “the platform”, that line has been exhausted. It might be interesting to take individual policy proposals that you consider to be bones of contention. You infer, for example, that there are specific provisions that are “intolerant” or against diversity. If you care to identify any such specific planks, perhaps the discussion might become more concrete and productive.