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Article: The collapse of Canada's N.D.P.; a deficit of imagination. (New Democratic Party)
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- The Nation
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- November 29, 1993
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A DEFICIT OF IMAGINATION
Whoomp, there it is! Whoomp, there it is!
On the night of October 25, members of the Canadian Liberal Party gathered around a giant TV screen in a Toronto hotel, watching as results of the national vote came in. Each time a Liberal canadidate was elected, the crowd chanted the popular rap refrain, celebrating a coast-to-coast landslide. Whoomp, there it is!
The world press picked up on the whoomps, which marked the Progressive Conservative Party's slide to just two parliamentary seats in a dramatic backlash against nine years of majority rule. But the chant was also a dirge for the New Democratic Party, the ...