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Side note: why did Ontario voters go from one Ford to another? Did they think, I loved the previous Ford except for the drugs and debauchery? Why does name coun
by Dumblydorr 7y ago
Side note: why did Ontario voters go from one Ford to another? Did they think, I loved the previous Ford except for the drugs and debauchery? Why does name count for so much in elections? Sigh
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- ojbyrne 7y agoRob Ford was mayor of Toronto, Doug Ford is premier of Ontario.
- bryanlarsen 7y agoI wouldn't be too harsh on the Ontario voters; if the Conservatives had any bit of competence they would have been able to win the 2011 and 2014 elections easily. By 2018 the Liberals were about 10 years past their sell-by date. Few were particularly thrilled voting for Doug Ford but they felt their alternatives were worse. I didn't vote for Ford but at least understood the people that did.
- rezgi 7y agoThe story goes that urban Toronto didn't vote for Ford, but the suburbs and the rest of the province is who he was targeting and they really responded to his populist platform. And there are enough people not living in Toronto DT to win him the election.
- 99052882514569 7y agoThey tried the drug using brother, that didn't work out too great. So they decided to go with the drug dealing brother[0] instead. [0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investiga...
- DeBraid 7y agoBecause the previous provincial leadership (Liberals Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne) performed poorly and caused a shift in political sentiment to the right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premiers_of_Ontario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premiers_of_Ontario