denfromoakvillemilton
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It ties in back to leadership because when the person at the forefront of the campaign shows a lack of interest, so does the staff. Or they go off the reservation, like Warren Kinsella. "Campaigning hard enough" means showing up and doing the little things. Tory, for his faults a(and they have been clearly outlined the past two pages) goes to all those small, minor community events. Chow has been to all the debates of course, but they're debates. She also has done a poor, poor job of getting the message out. SmartTrack is not perfect, but the average citizen does not know this. It may seem unreasonable that she quit Ottawa, until you realize she was never going to be NDP leader, not was she going to be part of a federal government. Mayor of Toronto, while she mostly likely didn't want to return to the city full time, was an easy win with two other candidates, an also ran and a mess.I have no way of knowing how Chow truly feels about anything. All I can do is look at her actions. It seems unreasonable to me that someone would quit a plum position as a federal opposition critic and dedicate one year of their life to campaign for a job they don't really want. I'm also not sure how exactly you measure something like "campaigning hard enough". Her campaign has made mistakes, as evidenced by her slide in the polls. I think that Globe and Mail article did a good job of laying out the mistakes. I've never denied this.
Anyway, I'm not sure how any of this responds to my original comments about leadership. There are a lot of good leaders who fail to catch on in an election campaign. I will be voting for Olivia Chow because I think she's the best person for the job, not because I think she's going to win.