Posted on 07/23/2014 12:42:51 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
The Toronto mayoral race is a dead heat between the three top contenders as Mayor Rob Ford’s support of one-in-four voters remains set in concrete and Olivia Chow has dropped off sharply, a new poll suggests.
The latest Forum Poll has Chow with 29% support of respondents, John Tory at 28% and Ford at 27%, all within the poll’s three percentage points margin of error. However, six-in-ten respondents still call for Ford to resign, suggesting little room for growth for the mayor’s campaign.
Karen Stintz saw her support rise to 6%, while policy geek David Soknacki’s campaign has yet to hit warp speed, coming in at 5%.
The latest poll is a steep drop for Chow, who had 36% support in a July 2 Forum poll. In the past two weeks, Chow has called for a handgun ban and faced a tough crowd in a Scarborough debate as she supports a seven-stop LRT, not the three-stop subway supported by Ford and Tory.
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Let’s see, what voting decision would you make:
You could vote for a dyed-in-the-wool communist (Chow),
a RINO equivalent (Tory),
or a guy whose personal life is a wreck, but has pulled the city out of a malaise that made the Carter years look like a cakewalk, cleaned up a lot of corruption, and as a bonus entertains without trying (Ford).
I’d vote for Ford in an instant. His personal life, so long as it doesn’t affect his job performance, is nobody’s business but his own.
The press up here did a hatchet job on him that makes the treatment of GWB by the MSM down there look like a lovefest. That you think Canada’s press is any less leftist than the US press is naive, to say the least.
You got it. I suspect the drug use came out because the dealers tried to blackmail him and he refused to play along; they new the media, especially the Toronto Star, would lap it up.
As for the drug use, there is now question he’s an alcoholic but I’m pretty sure that he was only an casual user of crack. I live on a block full of crackheads and know enough about it to realize that there’s no way he’d be able to cover up an addiction.
Canada and especially Toronto is just a messed up place
It was, but between Harper and Ford there has been tremendous improvement. You wouldn’t recognize the place compared to ten years ago.
I’m sure the mayor himself is single-handedly responsible for all of it.
He was his own worst enemy. His approval rating soared during his first year in office despite the bad press. Had he been able to stay sober he’d have been at least 20 points ahead in the polls right now; he won in 2010 with 48% and became more popular when he started delivering results. The *only* reason he’s having trouble now was his habit of showing up somewhere drunk and doing idiotic things while there were cameras around.
Improvements like the Kitchener Museum Child Sex Exhibit featuring video of minors masturbating! Schools bussed kids to be sexualized by this pornographic monstrosity and the Globe & Mail even encouraged parents to take their kids.
Funded by Canadian taxpayers of course.
“The exhibit, created by the Montreal Science Centre for youngsters 12 and up, is a chance for teens to learn scientific facts about sexuality”
http://www.thestar.com/life/2013/11/01/controversial_sex_exhibit_heads_to_kitchener_museum.html
Canada is one f’d up country apparentlty
Unfortunately, not terribly conservative. Think Bloomberg—perhaps as good as NYC could do outside of a three-way situation, but pretty terrible otherwise. He was a disaster as a provincial party leader—leading the Ontario “Progressive Conservatives” in the general direction of their British Brothers.
While I am not a great fan of the lesser of two evils, I do not blame you. If Ford actually has a shot, the obvious thing to do would be to vote for him-—but there is still a large gulf between Tory and Chow, and in Toronto, unlike the province as a whole, however Tory messes up can’t actually hurt the right wing brand.
I’m just glad I’m out in the sticks and three and a half hours away. Are there any other freepers from TO? Other than yourself, the handful of Ontarians that I know of are from around Ottawa.
Vote for the Junkie - It’s Important.
From my limited understanding of Canadian history (I grew up in the States), many of the best politicians in this country have been drunk. And Churchill did OK.
I do hope he wins, not only because he will do a better job than the other two, but also because he will cause all sorts of mental anguish to the cultural circles in TO that I despise.
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