When—let’s assume it’s inevitable—you pick up the election edition of Maclean’s, you’ll find, among other tales of adventure and woe, a fine accounting of the Conservative party’s electoral prowess. Political “genius” is fleeting and often nothing more than a figment of the imagination, but there is probably something—either horrifying or commendable—to be said for what the Harper Conservatives have done here. Which is to say, there is something to be said for reducing all of this nonsense to a series of geographic and demographic equations. Politics as a mathematical exercise. Nothing worth doing if it doesn’t equal votes.
In that regard, a few numbers to consider.
Stephen Harper can now claim two of the five smallest mandates, by popular vote, since 1900. To wit.
BTC: He talks in maths
Aaron Wherry
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:35:11 GMT
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