#BC Poli | 3 Days to Go | BC NDP Campaign | The Tweet Edition

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Spirits have never been higher than is the case with the broad swath of candidates running with John Horgan & British Columbia’s New Democratic Party, as we catapult towards election day on Saturday, October 24th.
After 29 days on the campaign trail, the younger, more diverse contingent of New Democrats are energized — and having loads of fun, as can be seen in Ravi Kahlon’s tweet directly below — which is to say, the dancing, and the sentiment expressed in Arrested Development’s Metamorphosis mix of Sly Stone’s Everyday People, perfectly expressing what the B.C. New Democratic Party is all about in the B.C. NDP’s winning 2020 campaign …


Although, pollster Angus Reid reports that the race is tightening …


Global BC Legislative reporter Keith Baldrey disagrees …


In fact, John Horgan’s New Democrats maintain their twenty-three-point-five per cent lead across both the Metro Vancouver region, and along the entire length of Vancouver Island — although the race is tightening up some in traditional B.C. Liberal strongholds like the Fraser Valley, South Central BC and the Okanagan, the Cariboo and the Interior, and the North.
Even so, Nathan Cullen is heavily favoured to re-take the Stikine riding, given that retired Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Doug Donaldson, had held the riding with fifty-two per cent of the vote in 2009, 2013 and 2017 — all of which looks good to soon-to-be-Premier-again John Horgan, and Mr. Cullen, as Mr. Horgan’s probable incoming Finance Minister, replacing the retired Carole James.
No, this is a race that is all over but the counting, although the B.C. NDP aren’t taking anything for granted (why would they, given 2013?), as expressed by Vancouver-Point Grey NDP candidate David Eby in this tweet:


VanRamblings will be back with our final, catch-all, throw the kltchen sink at the election edition of Decision 2020 Thursday, when we’ll posit that the New Democrats are set to become British Columbia’s natural governing party for the next 50 years! As well, we’ll bring out our crystal ball to predict who’ll make it into John Horgan’s Cabinet — among other foofaraw.

In the 2020 British Columbia provincial election, vote BC NDP

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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