Canadian provincial leadership elections 2015

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I wonder how many of those Brown memberships are those dicey mass "ethnic bloc" sorts of things--as I've suggested, he seems to have inherited the "Frank Klees machine" on that count...

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a) Flaherty/Elliott were/are socially liberal red Tories, so Elliott was going to be a non-starter with a large minority of the party.

Actually, Flaherty was more the right-populist standard-bearer in his runs for the leadership vs Eves and Tory--it's only Elliott that's positioned herself as a "mainstream" Davis heir.

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How many Tory MPP's have safe seats and have been around long enough to get a decent pension?There's your list. Hudak fits the bill. Ted Arnott is another.

Closer to Barrie, York-Simcoe's Julia Munro also counts--as does, for that matter, York-Simcoe's Jim Wilson, if his acting leadership presages retirement...

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It also seems to confirm our notion that Horwath's base is less socially liberal than Wynne's.

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There are a lot of don't knows but that is a non-insignificant number of Dippers who are creationists and anti-sex ed (although it might be just reflexively opposing whatever Wynne does).

It probably has a bit to do with the heavy poor/multiethnic contingent anong the anti-sex-ed set (y'know, 9/10 of Thorncliffe Park students staying home, etc)