Good. Let him pull the trigger. There's a penalty for the team that calls the early election, because people resent having to go through all of this more than once every four years.
In 2011, the Liberals assessed that they could beat the Conservatives in a general election, so they brought down the Harper minority gov't via confidence vote, called an election and got their asses handed to them. Harper came out of the election with a majority. Seems there's a fair amount of resentment that swing voters will take out on the team that makes them go to the polls again.
Good. Let him pull the trigger. There's a penalty for the team that calls the early election, because people resent having to go through all of this more than once every four years.
In 2011, the Liberals assessed that they could beat the Conservatives in a general election, so they brought down the Harper minority gov't via confidence vote, called an election and got their asses handed to them. Harper came out of the election with a majority. Seems there's a fair amount of resentment that swing voters will take out on the team that makes them go to the polls again.
Likewise if Bloc + CPC + NDP force an early election this fall, voters may punish those parties since "it's a pandemic".
Yup. It'll be interesting to see which side pulls the trigger.