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Is there a site that will give me a general poll of specific districts leads? for example up in Markham I have always supported the liberal party, but I want to vote for whomever could win.. (anyone but ford) Can I get some info of who my specific area will likely vote for. ie Lib or NDP.

I'm a little drunk right now being Friday, but I will read and check out your responses.

Hoss
 
Hoss said:
Is there a site that will give me a general poll of specific districts leads? for example up in Markham I have always supported the liberal party, but I want to vote for whomever could win.. (anyone but ford) Can I get some info of who my specific area will likely vote for. ie Lib or NDP.

I'm a little drunk right now being Friday, but I will read and check out your responses.

Hoss
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Looks like this aggregates and gives riding breakdowns: http://www.tooclosetocall.ca/2018/05/projections-update-for-may-30th-almost.html (can browse the site in case they update it).

Markham, though, doesn't look like the vote's going to matter. PCs solid at 40+, and a pretty break even spread Lib-NDP in all of them. Those ridings are ones that traditionally have strong Liberal support, but the NDP rising in the polls will probably split the left vote. And I'm not sure I see the NDP vote eating enough Liberal support there to actually pull ahead of the PCs.
 
Dipsters need a last minute swing of OLP voters that isn’t being registered in the polls. Otherwise, OPC has this.
 
UWHabs said:
Looks like this aggregates and gives riding breakdowns: http://www.tooclosetocall.ca/2018/05/projections-update-for-may-30th-almost.html (can browse the site in case they update it).

Markham, though, doesn't look like the vote's going to matter. PCs solid at 40+, and a pretty break even spread Lib-NDP in all of them. Those ridings are ones that traditionally have strong Liberal support, but the NDP rising in the polls will probably split the left vote. And I'm not sure I see the NDP vote eating enough Liberal support there to actually pull ahead of the PCs.
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Thank you for that site.

I wonder if things will change with Wynne stepping down.
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/wynne-liberals-ontario-election-minority-government-1.4689222

Interesting move.

An emotional Kathleen Wynne on Saturday acknowledged that she will no longer be premier after the June 7 election and encouraged voters to elect Liberal candidates to prevent the NDP or PCs from securing a majority.

"Even though I won't be leading this province as premier, I care deeply about how it will be led," the Liberal leader said during a campaign stop in Toronto.

"People want change, but by and large they're confident about where Ontario stands and where Ontario is headed. For this reason — I heard this over and over again — many voters are worried about handing a blank cheque to either Doug Ford or the NDP," she continued.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...lleging-he-has-deprived-them-of-millions.html

The widow and children of Toronto mayor Rob Ford have sued Doug Ford alleging he has deprived them of millions of dollars, including shares in the family business and a life insurance policy left behind to support his family.

In a $16.5-million lawsuit, filed Friday in Superior Court, Renata Ford also alleges that Doug Ford is a “negligent” business manager whose decisions have led to a steady decrease in the value of the Ford company, Deco Labels. Despite setting his sight on a political career, Doug has continued to receive “extravagant compensation,” even though Deco is losing money, Renata claims in her court filings.
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MindzEye said:
Who knew that Doug Ford was a scumbag?

Seriously, who knew?
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He is, but people want wynne out, and liberal supporters aren't swinging to the NDP in large enough numbers, so he is the premier ontario will get.

That and the whole scandal thing that was due to break didn't and here he is
 
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Running Deco Labels into the ground is unforgivable.
 
I know we're all etherized by now but this is pretty crazy stuff.

Doug is not Trump.
 
zeke said:
I know we're all etherized by now but this is pretty crazy stuff.

Doug is not Trump.
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Yeah, I'm seriously hoping that shit like this matters to Canadians/Ontarians when it absolutely wouldn't to Trumpanzees
 
I admire the optimism of anyone who thinks this is enough to derail the coming majority PC victory.

But unfortunately, I still don't this will do it.

"Ford Nation" types will probably deride Rob's widow as an ungrateful, disloyal, drug-addicted gold-digger (which is the essentially the story Matriarch Ford is peddling in her statement to the media). Regular PC voters will probably still hold their noses & vote PC in large enough numbers, since they desperately want the Liberals out and are flat-out terrified of 15 years of Liberal rule being followed by a return to NDP government in Ontario.

And then the NDP really has seemed to hit their ceiling. The Liberal vote has almost completely collapsed, the PC's have the most awful, polarizing leader possible, and they're still not really anywhere close to even denying the PC's a majority, let alone stopping them from winning the most seats.
 
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