Election Fever

Well, now is the perfect time to start a political blog. I could not resist the siren songs any longer, and decided that there was no time like the present to start this political blog. Currently, we are living in a dynamic era of change. We have the American elections heating up and also hints that the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will call a federal election this coming Sunday.

In Canada, we have Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the Conserative Party of Canada, Opposition Leader Stephane Dion of the Liberal Party, Jack Layton of the New Democrat Party, Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québécois and Elizabeth May of the Green Party vying for the Prime Minister's position.

On the other hand, in the United States of America, we have Senator John McCain, a Viet-Nam war veteran and Senator Barack Obama, a bi-racial candidate who is a former community organizer and a lawyer by profession. Both are trying capture the White House in the upcoming November Presidential elections. Not to mention McCain's running mate, Governor Sarah Palin, the incumbent governor of Alaska, who is shaping up to be a controversial figure in this upcoming elections and is bent on taking on Obama and the Democrats. Senator Joe Biden is Obama's pick for Vice-President.

September is shaping up to be a very busy month. With two elections to observe what's a Canadian to do? Canadians cannot vote in the upcoming American elections but our votes seem to have already been cast in favour of Obama, the Presidential nominee for the Democrats. Now all that Canadians have to do is get out and cast their votes for their respective Canadian candidates in the, most likely, upcoming Canadian elections.