real life politics time
provincial election in 10 days
the PC's (progressive conservatives) were well in the lead at the start of the election
now the NDP's (new democrats) are tied in the polls (leading in some)
no chance the Liberals will get in again after 15 years in power
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looking good so far
my preferred outcome would be an NDP minority govt with Liberal/Green support
but an NDP majority could work
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can't imagine what how if could work if the PC's got a minority - no one is willing to play with them so we'd have another election right quick
I think a PC majority is still a possibility but it will be hard to make those numbers work
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smiling as the NDP have come out of the basement and may have a chance at some kind of power role here again
could be a very very good thing for our province
<taking a small curtsey for my rl role in moving a few strategic votes toward the NDP>
things are changing so rapidly in the polls
it's kind of wonderful in political nerdland
this is from about half an hour ago
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-election-2018/ontario-ndp-and-pc-party-locked-in-tight-election-race-poll-1.3949034
Quote:The Mainstreet Research poll surveyed 1,682 voters from May 27 to May 28.
The poll found that the NDP currently sit at 39.3 per cent support among decided and leaning voters, while the PCs sit at 37.3 per cent. The Ontario Liberal Party sits at 16 per cent and the Green Party of Ontario has 4.5 per cent support.
The latest Mainstreet poll puts the NDP up 10 points from Mainstreet’s previous poll on May 18, while it indicates a dip of nearly five per cent for the PC Party.
“Doug Ford has blown the large lead he had in March and the Ontario election is a competitive affair,” Mainstreet Research President Quito Maggi said in a news release attached to the poll. “The question facing Ontarians is whether Ford or Andrea Horwath will get the keys to government for the next four years.”
Other polls released last week also put the NDP in the lead, with a Forum Research poll putting their support as high as 47 per cent.
Horwath has to stay on the attack.
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another bonus, we'd have another female premier
boom!
