I'm from BC. Polls close and the victory is called before votes even results even really start coming in.
Out of 338 seats in our parliament, 231 are held in Ontario and points east.
Neither was our current PM. You're thinking the way the Conservative political strategists did. They ran their election against Trudeau Senior, not the current one.
2nd youngest PM ever, and the youngest is Joe Clark.
Still rather have Trudeau than harper, I just dislike electing people based on legacy.
Yeah I do. You've got a young, good-looking, charismatic leader with what look like progressive policies on things like drugs and other social issues who occasionally slips up with the etiquette like calling an MP a piece of shit on the floor of the Commons. It makes him look like a real guy, and less like a standard shitty politician, which is what the electorate are sick of. He's also a relative newcomer and time spent out of the limelight of either the PMO or the Official Opposition means he looks like a fresh change.
That's exactly the opposite of Harper and Mulcair, the former of whom comes off as stodgy, out-of-touch and kind of an asshole, and the latter of whom comes off as one of the most fake, manufactured politicians of the modern age.
I know which one I'd bet on every time.
What? Obama wasn't elected on the strength of nice hair and Daddy's legacy.