Vote projection as of 28 Feb. Liberals lead by 3.6%
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This is because O'toole sucks. He's demoralized his own base and he can't win over people outside of the CPC base either. O'toole is quickly becoming a Biden, where his own side hates him and nearly his entire voter base only will be voting for him to get rid of Trudeau. This didn't work out well for Scheer, and looks like it won't work for O'toole. You can't just simply be 'anti-Trudeau', you actually have to stand for something to win over voters. You also need a personality that doesn't come off as a fake politician. O'toole is 10% less bland than Scheer but still no charisma, and has that fake attitude about him.
This is correct. O'Toole's biggest fault right now is that he has zero message. All his ads are "Meet Erin O'Toole's sleeves that used to be in the air force", or just "Trudeau sucks! Vote O'Toole". None of his messaging actually offers any concrete alternatives. And they're extremely soft on Trudeau. It's as if he's being paid by the Liberals to lose.
Because the PPC have zero chance of ever winning and kicking Trudeau out of office.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-trudeaus-covid-response-shows-money-can-buy-the-affection-of-voters
Very fitting.
There are too many Canadians who only know what the CBC, CTV and Global tell them.
If Trudeau's incompetence and corruption were being reported on objectively (or worse, reported on as harshly as a conservative PM's incompetence & corruption would be), he'd be polling in the single digits.
Democracy doesn't exist when one party owns the entire mainstream media. We don't even have a Fox News here. Our MSM 100% loyal to one party.
Buddy. You don't get to put "conservative" in scare quotes when you're campaigning for Trudeau.
You mean like Max?
Stop pretending <yourguy> is some divine conservative idol. He's as much of a flip-flopper as any of them. You just choose to ignore it when Max does it.
Oh please. Don't play dumb and pretend that's not what this is all about. You've bullied all the other non-PPCers off of the site, and all that remains is the head mod, so you've been trying 24/7 to try and chase me way with endless harassment so you can cement your dumb PPCtard takeover.
Should have went Gay for MacKay
Yeah, the CPC would for sure be polling higher right now if it were MacKay. I get the sense that the party establishment isn't behind O'Toole (I think him firing PP was a jab at the CPC establishment), which would explain the laughably amateurish campaign so far.
MacKay would have had the full weight of the CPC establishment behind him, which would have meant better, more qualified people managing his campaign. Unlike O'Toole who's campaign looks like it's being run by his wife from an "Election campaigning for Dummies" book. As well, the CPC has been planning since the early 2000s on having MacKay as leader right about now, so who knows what strategies and resources they had line up.
But MacKay just had to open his mouth and make that stupid comment about Scheer's abortion and gay marriage stances being a "stinking albatross", which alienated enough of the CPC membership to cost him the leadership election.
Not bothering to vote since it doesn't matter.
If CPC could just find ONE likable leader
They've had plenty of likeable potential leaders. Bernier for example. MacKay to a lesser extent.
The problem is they use ranked ballots in their leadership elections, which all but guarantees that the "Meh, he's okay I guess" guy wins.
This is too bad for the CPC. I liked both Lewis and Sloan (and obviously Max before he left). If Poilievre ran he'd have been a no brainer. I hope they are saving him for next round. But O'Toole is being a dick. Who knows what really goes on behind the scenes.