Ontario 2018 election

[MaxQue]

In other ways, you can't have your cake and eat it too,  Either the OLP vote collapses completely, and both NDP and PC gain seats across TO, or the Liberals hold the inner core and some outer ridings in TO and finish with more seats in TO than the pundits are currently projecting.  You can't have OLP collapsing in Toronto Centre and holding in DVN.  My prediction (subject to Kathleen Wynne's performance in the debate) is still that the Liberals will hold on to at least 7-9 seats in TO, and many of them will be the seats NDP are targeting - we'll see.

Yes, you can. Universal swing isn't a thing outside of theory. It assumes every place has similar voters swinging in the same way. See Lib Dems in 2015, where they mostly collapsed except in a few places with popular incumbents.

Also, DVN can have anti-Ford tactical voting for Liberals, which won't be a thing in Toronto Centre (where PC is totally out of running).

[MaxQue]

What is the 'poppy' issue exactly?

An attempt by the media and the right-wingers to create an US-style cult of the military.

[MaxQue]

Quito Maggi predicts a Doug majority.

How Mayor Bill Smith is doing in Calgary?

[MaxQue]

Margaret Wente in the Globe, on the choices Ontario faces:

"..On the whole, we Ontarians are not highly ideological people. All we want is a pair of reasonably safe hands on the wheel. And what’s on offer is a couple of folks (i.e. Ford and Horwath) who you wouldn’t trust to drive a golf cart..."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-fiscal-conservatives-are-struggling-between-options-this-ontario/

Ford is probably too moderate for that horrible plagiarist woman.

[MaxQue]

What is it with all these poorly timed last minute scandals? Patrick Brown sexually harassing workers, now this. My tinfoil hat thinks the leftists/NDP are buying them out... I wonder if a lot of the Wynne hate stems from this same machine?

Edit: just to clarify, not saying these allegations aren't true

I doubt the NDP is behind it, they would have went before the early vote.

[MaxQue]

No result from Essex until 9:20PM, from Simcoe North and Bay of Quinte until 9:25PM and from York-Simcoe before 11:25PM due to various polling station being closed.