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Inside David Soknacki’s Last Day on the Campaign. ⇒

   10 September 2014, mid-morning

We’ve lost a thoughtful candidate for mayor, and are left with two that aren’t trying very hard and a crack head. This is very disappointing.

“Ultimately, the reason Ford got elected is that voters were very superficial,” says Kelcey, noting his awareness that these comments may come back to haunt him. “I believe that the reason voters were willing to vote for Ford in 2010 in such numbers was because they were being superficial about municipal issues. That they wanted change, but they bought into the idea that the solutions could were simple and could be expressed in meaningless slogans without a plan to back them up… The challenge is that we’re still facing superficial voters, and the voters who are being anti-Ford may be being as superficial as the voters who were being pro-Ford in 2010, by not demanding more of the other candidates.”

I suspect we’ll see an upturn in vote for Chow. She needs to do something interesting if she hopes to win. Her campaign has been lacklustre thus far. How is she trailing Tory? Apparently you can get pretty far running a “I’m just like Rob Ford only I don’t do drugs” campaign.

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