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Progressive Political Proselytizing

 Bazie ― http://progressiveproselytizing.blogspot.com

A post-partisan, progressive perspective proselytizing on Canadian, American and world politics.

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Listed: Dec 15, 2011

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On polls and election predictions

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― If nothing else, the BC Liberals' entirely unexpected and dominating win in BC last night will be a useful lesson in humility for pollsters and those that rely on them to prognosticate about elections. All the polls showed a strong (and possibly...

Tags: BC Election 2013, Canadian Politics, Nate Silver, Eric Grenier, 538, Politics

Bazie ― 4 weeks 6 days ago

Thank you Westboro Baptist Chuch

Thank you Westboro Baptist Chuch

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― Westboro Baptish Church - made infamous for picketing military funeral in a protest against homosexual tolerance in America - has reached, unbelievably, a new low. They are now threatening to picket the funerals of victims of the Boston bombings,...

Tags: Islam, Freedom Of Religion, Values, Homophobia, Westboro Baptist Church, Boston Bombings

Bazie ― 7 weeks 6 days ago

Windows 8 is a flop, and there is little they could have done differently

Windows 8 is a flop, and there is little they could have done differently

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― The recent release of an IDC report is shines a pretty bad light on Microsoft. Windows 8 is selling very poorly with the steepest declining ever in the PC market, and in particular it has entirely failed to gain traction in tablets, with companies...

Tags: Technology, Windows RT, Andriod, Tablets, Windows 8, Apple

Bazie ― 8 weeks 6 days ago

The pestering begins: Liberal leadership candidates with campaign debt

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― I was very critical after the NDP Leadership election that the inboxes of supporters were full of emails from the candidates who did not win the leadership, but had extensive campaign debt to repay. Unfortunately, it looks like that story may ...

Tags: Canadian Politics, Deborah Coyne, 2013 Liberal Leadership Election, Politics, Campaign Debt, Liberals

Bazie ― 9 weeks 1 day ago

Justin's not so positive acceptance speech

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― The full text of Justin Trudeau's speech can be found here. I wanted to highlight the section talking about the Conservatives and Stephen Harper. It is the first major section after thank you's, and while there are many positive things that come...

Tags: Stephen Harper, Canadian Politics, 2013 Liberal Leadership Election, Negative Politics, Liberals, Justin Trudeau

Bazie ― 9 weeks 2 days ago

Obama tries to regain the narrative on the Sequester

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― When Obama decided to give back 5% of his salary to the Treasury, he made a political move not done since Herbert Hoover. In so doing, he undoubtedly aims to reclaim the momentum and the narrative on the Sequester that has been lost over the last...

Tags: Deficit, Sequester, US Politics, Politics, Budget Control Act

Bazie ― 10 weeks 4 days ago

Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Venus

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― Some days it feels like the different sides of the US political map really are different species. Today was one of those days. Controversial freshman Republican Senator Ted Cruz got into a bit of an exchange with a Dianne Feinstein, a stalwart of ...

Tags: US Politics, Mitt Romney, Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz, Gun Control, Politics

Bazie ― 13 weeks ago

How to vote in Trudeau's coronation

How to vote in Trudeau's coronation

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― Even before Justin Trudeau announced his candidacy to be the next Liberal leader, pundits were tripping over each other to declare the inevitability of his eventual success. With Marc Grarneau dropping out of the race following internal polling...

Tags: Nathan Cullen, Canadian Politics, 2013 Liberal Leadership Election, Martha Hall Findlay, Voting, Politics

Bazie ― 13 weeks ago

Specific policies mentioned in the Toronto Liberal Leadership Debate

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― In keeping with my goal of policy centric coverage of the Leadership contest, this post contains largely a list of various policies mentioned by the respective Candidates at the Toronto Liberal Leadership Debate. The ability to articulate a clear...

Tags: Martin Cauchon, Joyce Murray, Canadian Politics, David Bertschi, Deborah Coyne, 2013 Liberal Leadership Election

Bazie ― 17 weeks ago

Will Brazeau provide the needed momentum for Senate reform?

Will Brazeau provide the needed momentum for Senate reform?

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― For years, one of the few things that I have agreed with Harper has been on the issue of Senate reform. I don't necessarily agree on all the details, and I think the NDP's idea of abolishing the senate over reforming it holds some merit, but to ...

Tags: Bev Oda, Stephen Harper, Canadian Politics, Senate Reform, Politics, Patrick Brazeau

Bazie ― 17 weeks ago

Defining a Liberal identity in a narrowing political spectrum

Defining a Liberal identity in a narrowing political spectrum

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― The reality of the narrowing political spectrum in Canada is a huge problem for the Federal Liberals as they go about choosing their next leader. I discussed some of the factors behind this declining political space in my previous post, but in ...

Tags: Canadian Politics, 2013 Liberal Leadership Election, Politics, Political Theory, Liberals, Justin Trudeau

Bazie ― 18 weeks ago

A 30,000 foot view of the Canadian political landscape

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― In this post I investigate the 30,000 foot view of the Canadian political landscape, and consider various factors for what I consider to be a defining political trend of the last several decades: the declining political space between parties....

Tags: Canadian Politics, 2013 Liberal Leadership Election, N-Party Problem, Politics, Soviet Union, Political Theory

Bazie ― 19 weeks ago

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