07.17.2013 08:09 AM

Not just Windsor

…perhaps. Quote:

“While it’s Duncan’s seat and not her former riding, there’s still a lingering hostility among voters in the city about the way Pupatello was betrayed during the leadership campaign. She’s a star in Canada’s Motown.

The day of the leadership vote, Eric Hoskins and Charles Sousa unexpectedly threw their support behind Wynne when the Pupatello camp believed they had a deal; Windsor isn’t about to forget that slight. They’ll likely sit on their hands and won’t help out candidate Jeewen Gill, the guy who got the nod when Francis refused to take the bait.”

16 Comments

  1. Michael says:

    I am not sure that Ms. Blizzard could or should be considered an unbiased source when it comes to Ontario politics or the Liberal Party.

    • Warren says:

      Of course not. But I’ve heard plenty of Liberals repeat the sort of thing she’s written, and so have you.

      • Michael says:

        Maybe we travel in different circles, because I have not heard that at all. The opposite in fact. And that is across the spectrum of people, regardless of who they supported in the leadership. As well as those that remained neutral.

        • Warren says:

          Nobody lies to my face and gets away with it.

          • Lorne says:

            @Warren… Liberals in my neck of the woods are somewhere between ecstatic to discouraged to disgusted over Wynne, and Justin too. These are the old-time Liberal party workers in the trenches who hold out little hope for a Liberal resurgence — provincially and federally. They just don’t see the light at the end of the long long tunnel.

            Justin had better find keen, eager and bushy-tailed new recruits to toil in the trenches in each riding if he wants to survive to see his generational change take root.

            Regardless what the fleeting polls may say, it’s the volunteers in the ridings who make for successful elections.

          • Kaspar Juul says:

            Holy crap Lorne. Give it a rest

          • Lorne says:

            Hey, Kaspar… do words confuse you and facts are painful reality? I abhor wishful delusions because they are only a feelgood enema… full of shit too.

          • Kaspar Juul says:

            If that were only the case Lorne. Yet you try to pass talking points as some genuine concern. Observant

  2. Ian Howard says:

    I’m an asshole.

  3. Sean says:

    1. I was a Pupatello Person and was unhappy about how things turned out. However, Wynne has surprised me and seems to be doing a lot better than I expected.

    2. I don’t buy for a minute that the result of a leadership convention will move votes during a general election. I’ve done a lot of canvassing in my day and if there is one house in a thousand who even mentions a leadership convention, that would be about average.

    3. Whatever upset there was with Wynne, it is 1 tenth of the internal mess that McGuinty had to deal with when he first became leader.

  4. Lorne says:

    If the NDP and PCs clean up on the by-elections, the Wynne government will be soon defeated. You don’t give your political enemies time to recuperate and come back stronger. Horwath will be unable to prop up her Wynne Liberal ally and we are headed into a full election after September.

    The greater problem is if rejection of Liberals in Ontario will also creep into the Trudeau Liberals federally.

    • Michael says:

      I don’t think you are going to see anyone clean up. What you are going to see in the by elections is what you saw in the last election what you see in polls, and what we would see if there was a general election held today. All three parties fairly even, with no one party being able to pull decisively ahead.

    • Lorne says:

      Tim… please read my comment in the Hufpo topic thread which seems to confirm the possibility of a significant drop in Liberal polling popularity in Ontario and Quebec….. perhaps due to the Liberal debacle in Ontario and BQ resurgence in Quebec. This confirms my worst fears.

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