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Ontario Provincial Elections 2011 Discussion (pg. 7)
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| GGM |
| Conservatives at all levels would be scary but Dalton really blows. I'm happy with the Lib minority... |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
honestly, the Tories could have put a sock puppet as their party leader and won the election. mind ing boggles how they screw up again! |
That's easy. They went for crime legislation as their red meat for the conservative base, made an otherwise liberal platform, then got bogged down in racial arguments for the rest of the campaign. |
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| GGM |
| Hudak ed up at many points but I honestly LOL'd when I saw he copied Ford's "war on cars" campaign. Really guy, really?? |
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| daves |
I wish NDP or Green or "other" picked off a few more seats from Liberals but I guess at least they are going to be reined in a little bit without full majority.
Although if it remains as a single seat difference between minority and majority, expect some byelection shenanigans in the near future.
McGuinty should not have a majority as he may start a lot of nonsense knowing that he is almost certainly retiring after this term. |
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| jchung52 |
Woo I still have a job haha
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| ChemEnhanced |
| I guarantee the liberals are making some phone calls right now to get the 54th seat. |
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| nacarter |
| Hudak simply didn't resonate with voters. He spent a huge amount of the campaign talking about taxes. Ipsos-Reid polling numbers found only 15% of voters really cared about tax issues. Hudak has no job creation plan (frankly, job issues transcend ANYTHING that the provincial gov't can do), and Ford really hurt him in Toronto. Frankly, it's a pretty easy election to analyze. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by CMR
He made promises? All I saw was "McGuinty taxes!!", "McGuinty bad!!".
Tory's mistake on the other hand was the faith-based schools funding fiasco. |
How about wasting $50 million tracking sex offenders with GPS, when no police force asked for such powers?
Idiot.
I voted for Cheri DiNovo in High Park/Park-dale. She made the most sense in the debate I went to. Plus she already knew all the issues, and how to handle government. She was the clear choice in my riding. |
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| Adam420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jchung52
Woo I still have a job haha
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:gsmile: |
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| Yohan |
journalistic integrity? not found! |
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| malek |
| Guys expect elections in the next 12-24 months... how people still vote Liberals is beyond me. |
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| nacarter |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
Guys expect elections in the next 12-24 months... how people still vote Liberals is beyond me. |
Alright, I'll bite.
You want to win in Ontario, you can't get shut out in Toronto. Hudak already had an uphill battle in Toronto, having to contend with an unpopular neo-con mayor. What did Hudak do to court Toronto voters? He trashes a Liberal plan to subsidize the hiring of immigrants - great plan for a city that's 50% IMMIGRANTS. Next he alienates the GLBT community with that ridiculous flyer in Brampton - there goes the rest of your urban vote. The rest of his platform was indistinguishable from the Liberal platform.
Basically it comes down to the devil you know rather than the devil you don't. Considering how popular amalgamation has been with Toronto residents, the Cons will be lucky to get any seats there for at least a generation.
I'm not too thrilled with 'Premier Dad' either, but Hudak didn't give me any reason to change my vote. |
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