the election here could end up the other way, you know.

the ndp could get off to a fast start, forcing liberal voters to make the choice that ndp voters usually have to make. and, ford is going to be harder to vote for than harper for most liberals in the gta.

but, horwath has spent her career campaigning in the middle, and she's going to be a very hard sell. on top of that, as soon as she gets the spotlight on her, she's no doubt going to pull a mulcair - or have to deal with muckracking liberals convincingly painting her as the neo-conservative that she truthfully really actually is. even if she does get off to a good start, that doesn't mean she can hold it.

like every other conservative at ever other level in this country, ford has to split the vote somehow.

also: they said women hated trump, and they probably did. but, in the end, trump actually won white women, who appear to have been whipped by their husbands. numerically speaking, they decided the election (although i'm convinced that it was actually decided by voter suppression laws). let us hope that if anything is different in canada, it's that this doesn't happen here.