Wow
The Wynne campaign just did a robocall to a bunch of new Ontario Liberals. I wonder how they got their numbers?
Also, robocalls: interesting strategy, there.
Sandra…for a change
For the Ontario Liberal leadership, I’m supporting Sandra Pupatello. She announced her candidacy just minutes ago here in Toronto, and she’s heading next to her home in Windsor to declare her intentions before a big hometown crowd.
In the coming days and weeks, I’ll be writing more about why I’m supporting her. But for now, here are ten reasons why I think Sandra is simply the best person for the Ontario Liberal leadership.
1. She is the only candidate who can win the coming election. Period.
2. As long as anyone can remember, we’ve never won with a Toronto leader. Sandra’s from Windsor, and proudly so.
3. She’s multilingual and she’s whip-smart. She’s fun and she’s one of the most likeable politicians I’ve ever met. She’s the candidate the PCs and the NDP fear the most.
4. Coming from Windsor, she knows how to defeat the OLP’s strongest adversary – the NDP. But she enjoys beating Cons, too. And she’s never lost an election.
5. She has held senior portfolios like economic development, and trade. She’s got the right kind of experience for these tough economic times.
6. Jobs, jobs, jobs: her number one focus is the security provided by a stable, well-paying job. That is the centre of her economic policy. It’s what Ontario needs. She is what Ontario needs.
7. She treats every taxpayer dollar as a sacred trust. She’s frugal, and she’s careful with every dollar. That’s how she’ll govern, too.
8. With Sandra, what you see is what you get. That’s how she is. Taxpayers rightly demand that we be straight with them. That’s what they’ll always get with her.
9. Sandra left government to work as a senior, and successful, business executive. She’s therefore been far from any of the the controversies that have beset her competitors for the top job.
10. She doesn’t buy into the Left vs. Right, labour vs. management, urban vs. rural stuff that others are so preoccupied with. She can win everywhere in Ontario, with the support of people from all walks of life, and every point of view. And she will.
Sandra Pupatello provides the kind of change we need, and not just in the Ontario Liberal Party.
U.S. election open thread
Exhilarated, exhausted, exhaling. What a night.
I am so happy, I can’t tell you how happy. So, over to you smart commenters: why did Obama win? Why did Romney lose?
Open thread. Comment away!
(Here, by the way, is the back of my car. Tells the tale. Happy, BTW, that equal marriage is the law in Maine!)
Yahooooooooooo
Woooooooooooot!
Monte reacts to GOP numbers in Virginia
Sun News set right now – me, Monte and Adam.
The only opinion column that ever impacted an election result
As I have written many times, opinion columns don’t matter squat. They actually often send voters in the opposite direction from what was intended.
As I plan to discuss on Sun News Network tonight (all night), this is the only op-ed that is the exception to that rule.
The province, like the country
…is not, as someone once said, what you can see from the top of the CN Tower on a clear day.
There’s a bit more to it than that. A column well worth reading, and advice well worth heeding.
In Tuesday’s Sun: giving it the old electoral college try
Ever since the first presidential debate, has Mitt Romney been steadily gaining on Barack Obama?
Yes.
Has the Republican presidential nominee erased the Democratic president’s substantial lead?
Yes to that, too.
Has the GOP run a well-funded, focused campaign, one that has put the Democratic machine on the ropes?
Yes, yes, yes.
So, taking all of that into account — and the indisputable fact Romney and Obama are now effectively tied in national polls leading into Tuesday’s historic vote count — can Obama lose the election?
Well, actually, no. No he can’t.