Rob Ford opens huge lead in mayor's race. ⇒
20 September 2010, early morning
Let me start with a, “what the fuck?” That out of the way, how does this even make sense? Toronto is basically a Liberal hot-bed. Any chump could run for that party and get voted in. This mayoral race really should have been (former Liberal MPP) Smitherman’s to lose. That he is losing it so spectacularly is pretty amazing. You obviously aren’t going to out-crazy Rob Ford. Why even bother? Toronto isn’t a particularly right-wing place. He should have been trying to solidify the left-wing base. It looks like Pantalone is going to get all of those voters. I have to wonder what jack-ass is running the Smitherman campaign. That said, 45.8% just doesn’t make sense. I’m going to have to assume the undecided vote is gigantic. I just can’t accept that such a huge chunk of the city are fucking morons. Morons.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Keep in mind that generally for these things, they’re automated calls made to landlines only, and that 25% of those polled were still undecided. So the numbers for that sample group really look like this:
34.35% Ford
15.98% Smitherman
12.60% Pantalone
7.28% Rossi
4.80% Thomson
25% Undecided
So Ford is certainly doing very well, but it’s by no means a done deal.
by Dave on September 20 2010, 11:50 am #
That’s a good point indeed – and it’s especially encouraging to think that young people, who are less likely to have a landline, are also less likely to run for Ford.
Meanwhile, I think I heard that the 25% undecided vote is down from 40% in the previous poll.
by Matt on September 20 2010, 12:28 pm #
Young people, who are less likely to have a land line and vote for Rob Ford, are also less likely to vote, period. God damn young people.
by ramanan on September 20 2010, 12:48 pm #
A great op-ed in the Star about Rob Ford.
by ramanan on September 21 2010, 12:38 pm #