a wolf angel is not a good angel

9:00: Note: people in BC, pretend you’re not reading this for the 30 minutes until it’s 30 minutes before your polls close in 30 minutes for the half hour until your polls also close.

I don’t really know what the point of allowing news out before the polls close is, what with there not actually being any news before the polls close. Right now the CBC is telling us “millions of people got outside to vote . . . in the coldest part of a Canadian winter”.

9:05 Okay, they’re not actually publishing news, they’re just talking about how they’re going to have news really soon, and a little timer on the bottom of the screen, counting down the time, and talking about the weather in Yellowknife (-16, unseasonably *warm*).

9:07 People on horses say lots of people will vote, and hey, last year it was warm in Chilliwack, but this year it’s rainy. Dear god, this is stupid.

9:08 There are ridings in doubt in all regions! The Liberals are trying to keep some ridings from going Conservative, NDP, or Bloc.

9:10 This is a super important election, so let’s go to Rick Mercer, because we’ve got nothing to say.

9:11 Let’s go to RERUNS of Rick Mercer from less than an hour ago. No wonder his head is so big it’s almost exploded.

9:15 We’ve been on TV for a long time. In Ontario, there are a lot of seats, and it’s important for the Liberals to keep them, and they have pressure from the Conservatives on the right and the NDP on the left.

9:16 Will Olivia Chow win? She’s Jack Layton’s wife.

9:17 In some ridings, the challengers didn’t run last time, and in others, they did. Will that matter?

“Even during a cold winter campaign, the prairies can still have hot controversy.” SHUT UP.

9:19 People will be making a big decision in this election.

9:22 Don Cherry says stupid and offensive things. Maybe I shouldn’t watch CBC.

9:26 Zoned out, there are no words for how stupid this pre-election coverage is.

9:31 Liberal - 19, Conservative - 10, NDP - 3, BQ - 1. Share of vote is perhaps a little irrelevant

9:37 25/11/5/1, but one riding is reporting 6 votes. Why are you bothering to even say you’re leading if there are 6 votes? (I am sad that this didn’t show Green winning.)

9:38 Hey, when we had only part of the votes, it looked like the Conservatives were neck-and-neck with Bloc in Gaspesie-Iles-de-la-Madeleine, but now they’re not.

9:41 Quebec will be interesting, but we’re just going to talk about how it will be, because we don’t have any actual results.

9:42 Chicoutimi, the Liberals and the BQ are tied at 13 votes each, looks good for the Liberals! Hello? Are we totally nuts?

9:44 Selkirk-Interlake, they have counted 8 votes. NDP is beating Conservative. (5-2-1 for the Liberals). Arguably this is stupider than the pre-election coverage.

9:47 Let’s show just the Ontario ridings, because no one else matters.

9:48 45-24-9-4, but recall that there are few prairie results yet.

9:49 Every single party is up from last time.

9:51 52-45-12-9: we’re moving west!

9:53 56-59-14-12: the conservatives are now ahead! I might decide to change my order to Conservative-Liberal-Bloc-NDP, because it’s easier.

9:57 My riding is not returning results. Stupid geezers counting slowly. My parents’ riding is also not, but that one’s not interesting.

9:59 83C 70L 26B 17N 1Independent

10:00 Welcome, BC and Yukon. CBC, open your internet now.

10:04 Internet is open. Internet is so painfully slow. Paul Martin is trailing in his riding by 3 votes, my riding hasn’t returned any results yet. Harper is winning, as is Layton. Duceppe is, of course, though I haven’t seen any results.

10:08 Predict a Conservative minority.

10:13 I wonder if the single Green vote in my parents’ riding is my father’s.

10:16 Green Party has a lead in one riding with one poll returning. But this is the first time ever, so good on them.

10:26 I realise I get bored very easily. All the riding-by-riding results are not showing. 10 Conservatives in Quebec so far.

10:28 2 ridings in Quebec are still not returning results. Current results: 111C 96L 50B 25N 1I. Paul Martin will be reelected.

10:39 I consider sleeping, given that hey, it’s exactly the result I predicted.

10:55 Ready for bed! Sad that, yet again, the NDP lack the balance of power by one or two seats, and sadder that I am hoping more seats go to the Conservatives so the NDP get it. (The BQ do have the balance of power and are more likely to have some relationship with the Tories, but still.)

11:05 Which riding isn’t reporting yet? Why not? And who finds it interesting that this will be a heavily rural result? Why does everyone insist on saying things which are totally not news.

11:13 My riding has been called for the Bloc. Why am I awake listening to results I don’t care about?

11:18 Bad curling “joke”. But the turnout will be over 60%, which is good. NDP continues to just barely lack the balance of power, but I suspect these numbers will change a lot — there will be a couple of close counts. Plus, you know, there’s one more riding to come.

11:20 Currently if NDP gets Vancouver Centrem they’d have the balance of power.

11:21 Not anymore (due to ridings going back and forth between Conservative and Liberal). And now they have it again, or could.

11:22 Now they have it no matter who gets that last slow, bizarre riding. What is going on? It’s been shut for 80 minutes.

11:24 All polls reporting! News update: Montreal has no Conservatives! Neither will Toronto or Vancouver! Maybe it will be fun to be hated by two levels of government.

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