Canadian by-elections, 2015

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Voters often punish the incumbent party when there is an 'unnecessary' by-election.

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Where's the evidence that the comparatively poor Liberal performance in SW Ontario last year had anything to do with Wynne's sexuality? Or are we just listing off stereotypes and confusing them with reality?

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Working class full stop. Under her leadership (whatever you think of it) the NDP have become relevant in Toronto banlieues.

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Remind me how well the ONDP were doing amongst such voters ten years ago.

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Remind me how well the ONDP were doing amongst such voters ten years ago.

Let's be reminded that the NDP won more 416 seats in 2003 than in 2014, including a 27 point NDP win in Beaches and a 16 point win in Trin-Spa.

But only whitey lives in those seats (slight exaggeration).

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Just to clarify: I'm certainly not defending Horwarthism (lol), but adding a mild corrective to certain easy-but-misleading analogies...

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...let's wait until we see *provincial* polling to judge whether the BCLibs are getting a "Justin bump" here.

...and even if they do, how long will it actually last? Because (as everyone here knows/ought to by now) post-electoral-victory-honeymoons tend not to be permanent.

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All for one and one for all, all committed to looting the public purse. How noble.