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Ken Burch
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posted 14 October 2008 10:07 PM      Profile for Ken Burch     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Their candidate finished FOURTH, with less than 10%.

Can the Yukon Dippers ever recover from a wipeout like that?

It's sad to see Audrey's riding slide further and further right.


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Doug
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posted 16 October 2008 12:50 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
They can see Sarah Palin from their house.

Sorry, had to.


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Boom Boom
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posted 16 October 2008 01:07 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 

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Stockholm
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posted 16 October 2008 09:31 PM      Profile for Stockholm     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't know that I'd say that Yukon has slid to the right. I think that politics there tends to be very personality based. The Liberal MP there is apparently quite well-liked and quite progressive, so I assume that as long as he is there - it sucks a lot of oxygen out of the room for the NDP.

Before Audrey McLaughlin was elected, Yukon was thought of as a pretty rightwing place and was represented for many years by that troglodyte Erik Nielsen.


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Policywonk
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posted 17 October 2008 11:51 AM      Profile for Policywonk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Before Audrey McLaughlin was elected, Yukon was thought of as a pretty rightwing place and was represented for many years by that troglodyte Erik Nielsen.

The NDP was first elected as government in the Yukon two years before Audrey was first elected in a 1987 by-election.


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ceti
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Wasn't that with premier Tony Penikett, father of Tahmoh Penikett, the actor who plays Karl "Helo" Agathon in Battlestar Galactica?
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