Down To The Wire in Saskatoon Rosetown
ndp candidate falls short
In a close call during Canada Votes 2008, long time NDP candidate Nettie Wiebe was narrowly defeated by newcomer Conservative Kelly Block. It was a race whose lead changed hands several times during the course of ballot counting.Wiebe lost by about 200 votes.Wiebe says in the end it was the rural vote that hurt her- and hopes some day the rural vote will come back to the New Democrats...Many of the last polls to be counted Tuesday night in Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar were rural.Wiebe says she still has a lot of energy left for public policy, but it remains to be seen if she'll run again.
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Loss
You lost because your party is selling something the people do not want. That doesn't mean Ms Wiebe isn't passionate about her cause, but people aren't buying what she is selling.
Isn't it ironic that "the
Isn't it ironic that "the rural vote hurt her" when she was the president of the NFU?
I love close races
As heart wretching as they may be, a close race means "your ballot counted". I know they all count, but when a candidate has a lop-sided win over another, one ballot cast won't make or break a candidate. When a close one like this happens, that one ballot certainly did. Not to mention it's fun to watch and sends a great message to the winning party "you may have won, but you need to address the constituents as to why you didn't get their mass support. Kelly Block clearly needs to find out what went wrong in S'toon-Rosetown-Biggar. It should have been a walk, considering what great shoes she had to fill from Skelton. Skelton was remarkably active in her riding, very tough to replace.
Like I said, I love a close race. Just like a Rider game when you have 10 seconds left in the game and you are 2 points behind, sitting midfield, just shy of Congi's field goal record kick. Love it!!!!!!
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