Hot damn, that sucks. I'm sorry. The bright spot for me in Alberta is seeing Linda Duncan hanging onto Edmonton-Strathcona, denying Harper a Conservative sweep yet again.

I'm hoping that these election results set the stage for something good to foment in the coming four years. Four years is a lot of time for the NDP to consolidate its newfound strength, the Greens to build, the Liberals to rebuild, and the Conservatives to make deeply unpopular changes or just flat-out fall on their faces.