Politics is a lot like curling
I might point out that the phrase "stealing votes" has become fairly common usage in election coverage. It does not usually carry the same meaning as its use more recently in U.S. political coverage.
In Canada, it usually means that a party has made gains in an area where another party expected to do well. I can't say definitively, but I suspect its a metaphor imported from sports. In curling, for instance, points gained as a result of a mistake by an opponent are routinely called 'stolen'. That is clearly the sense in which political analysts in Canada use the phrase.
So that's what the talking heads meant: politics is like curling.
In Canada, it usually means that a party has made gains in an area where another party expected to do well. I can't say definitively, but I suspect its a metaphor imported from sports. In curling, for instance, points gained as a result of a mistake by an opponent are routinely called 'stolen'. That is clearly the sense in which political analysts in Canada use the phrase.
So that's what the talking heads meant: politics is like curling.