No NS election tomorrow
In a telephone interview moments ago, Jennifer Stewart, press secretary to Premier Darrell Dexter, said “there absolutely will not be an election called tomorrow.” We were discussing election timing...
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Thoughts on election timing
Since 1970, four Nova Scotia governments have delayed elections into the fifth year of their mandates. Three of the four got clobbered. In 1978, Gerald Regan’s Liberals went almost seven months into...
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Will the government trample wheelchair users in its rush to an election?
Last spring, a disability rights organization surveyed the constituency offices of Nova Scotia MLAs and found hardly any were fully accessible to citizens who use wheelchairs. In May, the James...
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Six things the NDP did wrong — part 1
Six things the NDP did wrong — Part 1 1. The Expense Scandal In the election of 2009, Nova Scotia voters did what the NDP had been asking them to do for decades: They ditched the same-old, same-old...
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Six things the NDP did wrong – part 2
Further evidence, if more were needed, that God is a New Democrat: No sooner did I put up the first part of my Things the NDP Did Wrong post than I was laid low by a chest cold that obliterated deep...
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That Don Mills poll
Don Mills sounds nervous. Nova Scotia’s best known pollster has been conducting a rolling poll for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, and over the last week, his numbers have pointed to an historic rout....
View ArticleNDP rights and wrong — readers comment
Many of those who responded to my posts on the Dexter government’s mistakes and accomplishments (here, here, here, and here) were disappointed New Democrats. To my complaint that a small cadre of...
View ArticleLosers & winners
Nova Scotians tune in on election night to learn two things: Who won, and who are the sore losers. Darrell Dexter was a smart loser, delivering the best speech of the night, a gracious amalgam of...
View ArticleMake that 1,049 votes from annihilation, theoretically
Sharp-penciled Contrarian reader Gus Reed points out that the Dips could have been wiped off Nova Scotia’s electoral map by as few as 1,049 votes, not 2,087 as I wrote Friday. For this to happen, all...
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Why do new governments get a honeymoon?
Because, for all our cynicism about politics, we want them to succeed. We wanted Darrell Dexter to succeed, and our unrealistic expectations for his government never recovered from its series of early...
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