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[suitablyemoname]

Something weird is happening in Ontario. We have a provincial election on the 6th of October, and the common wisdom was that Tim Hudak of the Progressive Conservatives would effectively waltz his way to a majority, ending 8 years of Liberal governance. By virtually all estimates, he could expect to win by 10% or more: the polls showed that kind of

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[steelcaver]

Election fatigue is my guess.

After a Toronto municipal election that was covered by media in the entire province, and a federal election not too long afterward, no one in Ontario really wants to expend a lot of energy talking about it - and no one in the other provinces has much reason to.

[dzuunmod]

Wasn't the municipal election an Ontario-wide municipal election?

I think local Ottawa media, for instance, wasn't covering the Toronto election so much as they were covering their very own election in which Jim Watson was elected mayor.

[mijopo]

"The bottom line, though, is that even as the polls swing wildly and unpredictably (although in concert with one another), there's no excitement or buzz about this election at all. Nobody cares"

It's worse than that, nobody even cares that nobody cares.

[tridus]

What's the issue in this election?

It probably should be about debt and health care. For the first half of it, what did they talk about? A crazy scheme from Dalton on immigrant worker tax credits, and Hudak's ability to make himself look like a ham-fisted jackass in opposing it.

As far as I can tell as a former Ontario resident, after a few days of that everybody just tuned out. Maybe the Conservatives would do better if they were actual conservatives instead of neocon nitwits, but Rob Ford's random ferris wheel fiasco and Harper's "dumb on crime" strategy to everything has kind of turned people off the whole brand.

[northern_dirt]

What election?

[trinib]

the debate got a little bit of attention...here in london this election is very important but for the past week the major headline is that some dude threw a banana at a hockey player