New Democratic Party is surging in Quebec and parts of Canada.

[applegrove]

This is great news!! No majority for Harper I think.

[roamer65]

1. Hopefully a Lib-NDP coalition gov't.

I hope both get enough seats to make it happen and kick Harper out.

[brooklynite]

2. Polling suggests...

...that results will be virtually unchanged from last time.

http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/polls.html

[Canuckistanian]

3. A majority for Harper was never in the cards

But the NDP in Quebec IS a surprise. And they have enough votes to make Jack Layton a real threat in this election.

I heard the national NDP approval has gone up 9% in the last week.

Here's hoping.....

[applegrove]

4. This is now exciting. I am happy.

[Canuckistanian]

5. As a life-long supporter of the NDP

I couldn't be happier.

And the NDP is also making inroads to the younger voters.

[applegrove]

6. for the last 25 years I've gone back and forth between the libs and the new democrats.

As long as Harper does not have a majority to go all Mike Harris/Ayn Rand on us I'll be pleased.

[glinda]

7. Yeah!!!!!!!

[DCKit]

8. I never did understand Harper's election.

But WTF do I know about Canada?

Canada, France, Italy, GB... all a RW mystery to me.

[akbacchus_BC]

9. Yeah, for me too, I dislkike Harper with a vengeance. Ignatieff is

not what we want!

[Dawson Leery]

10. KEEP Harper out!

[akbacchus_BC]

11. We are trying, but Canada is regressing, most people like Harper!

[chollybocker]

12. The NDP might also challenge a few Bloc and Lib candidates in Qc.

In Montreal's gay village (a mix of separatist and progressive ideologies), the NDP presence is much more palpable than in past elections. This particular riding will probably be a lost cause, but the NDP is really stepping it up. They gained 6-8 points in recent polls.

[akbacchus_BC]

13. If the Bloc left, then the NDP will have more votes federally, the Bloc

is like Nader!

Gawd, I hope Harper does not win with a majority, then we are fucked!

The conservatives have already eliminated Ignatieff with their ads, I don't like Ignatieef either!

[chollybocker]

14. It's possible that Bloc supporters are finally realizing

that the Bloc can never win control of the House, nor any power within the confederation without coalescing with other Parties, and with the (still) recent events in Qc for the Libs, the NDP may be primed to inherit the malcontent Bloqists.

[akbacchus_BC]

15. No, the Bloc control the votes in Quebec but the NDP is more in

tune with the Quebec people, and the Bloc only represent Quebec provincially so if the Bloc went away, the NDP will get all those votes as the Quebecers are very much in tune with the NDP! Too many parties here splitting the votes but I cannot stand Harper!

[Forkboy]

16. Can't wait for a democratic surge in this country.

:)

[akbacchus_BC]

17. You will have to wait forever with a two party system, same shit

here!

[applegrove]

18. I was wrong. The newspaper today had the NDP splitting the vote and the neocons

getting a majority. We have ten days to turn it around.