Ontario 2018 election

[ON Progressive]

Ugh.

[ON Progressive]

One thing I don’t quite understand is, if the NDP vote is too inefficient, then where is it concentrated? Because isn’t Doug Ford supposed to be competitive in SW Ontario, where the NDP’s base traditionally is?

I know that their vote share will increase by a lot in a ton of safe PC seats, at the expense of the Liberals, but there seems to be relatively few NDP blowout seats (where they win by like an unnecessary 30 points or something), unlike with the PC’s. That doesn’t quite seem to add up, but maybe I’m just being dumb..

Urban ridings (I.e. Toronto proper)

[ON Progressive]

100% agree.  People should not justify support for the PCs by deluding themselves that adults in the room like Vic Fedeli or Christine Elliott will take charge.  Every candidate elected in every riding is the local apologist for Doug Ford.

Similarly, I don't get why people sometimes say "I don't like (insert party leader) but I'm voting for the local candidate of my party!"

Canada's party discipline is higher than any other democracy in the world, so any elected parliament member (federal or provincial) is pretty much just a rubber stamp for the party leader's agenda.

[ON Progressive]

Besides the fact that the NDP policies aren't really particularly radical, the vast majority of voters don't care for policy anyway. What makes voters think you're moderate or extremist often comes down to tone and message, rather than actual policy.

[ON Progressive]

Is CBC (or some other channel) going to do coverage tonight? Gonna need a stream if that's the case.

CBC has a Youtube stream, I don't know if it'll work in the US though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY14V2CgDNI