Is that personal conjecture or are you aware of something more?
Projection. And let me take it further: It's closing in on *most* of the polling/marketing companies too, emphasis on *marketing*.
There's a massive disconnect right now with the polling support for Ford, and nothing could describe the gulf better than Ford himself in Cynthia's interview that
@PinkLucy posted.
The almost entire thrust of Ford's marketing is a template of what got Trump elected.
So let's flip this over: How many Ontarians would vote for Donald Trump? I don't have a breakdown for Ontario, but for Canada:
September 27, 2017 1:40 pm
Donald Trump’s popularity in Canada stumbles to new low: poll
U.S. President
Donald Trump isn’t too popular in Canada, according to
a new poll by Forum Research.
The president’s approval rating among Canadians is at a new low, the poll of 1,350 people found. About 72 per cent of respondents said they disapprove of Trump’s actions — up seven percentage points from when a similar poll was conducted in March.
[...]
https://globalnews.ca/news/3771984/donald-trump-approval-rating-canada/
Hey, I just hope my projections on Ford's marketing is wrong...but there's a lot more to come on Wylie et al yet. And how his 'style' has percolated through Canadian agencies.
Another email from a friend up on the situation:
[Are you saying that conservatives would do anything to win... except designing policies that the majority of voters would actually want? Preposterous!
I'm actually surprised the Liberals turned down the guys (Wylie) offer. Then again, Ignatieff was not a winner in any sense.]
Here's another projection: A number of noted Cdn pollsters are going to 'come out' and admit they've been approached, or been involved with persons who've attempted to 'influence' their poll results. At a price, of course.
Give it time...
Addendum: Just catching up on the latest at the Globe, which has dived into this head-first. Just look at the staff names that are now appearing in the front page featured stories. And the number of them. They're digging, and they're getting dirt...
[...]
Mr. Wylie moved to Britain in 2010 at 20 to study law at the London School of Economics. While there, he put his talents to use with the Liberal Democrats.
Mr. Wylie devised a new way of using information to target potential supporters, but the party wasn’t interested. A party contact introduced him to SCL Elections, the company that would eventually court Mr. Wylie for his data expertise and spawn Cambridge Analytica, according to The Observer.
Soon, his work began earning recognition back home.
In 2012, Brian Gold, then a federal Liberal Party executive for Edmonton-Spruce Grove, wrote an internal paper for the party that called for work on microtargeting, citing research by “Chris Wylie, Strategic Telemetry, Canada, U.S. and the U.K. and Australia.”[...]
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ie-the-whistle-blower-on-cambridge-analytica/
2012! Take note of that date, it will recur in later examinations of what's happened, at least in Canada. That's six years ago for those challenged by the maths.
Do any of you doubting the validity of my projections honestly think that a trend so hot would be ignored in the belly of the Cdn political and marketing beast?
Meantime, from same article, and I'm having some trouble with this claim to be honest:
Mr. Wylie left Cambridge Analytica before it joined the Trump campaign. Since then, according to The Observer, he’s been “lying low in Canada: guilty, brooding, indignant, confused.”
I wouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt as to altruism at this point in time. It took cold-hearted sociopathic endeavour to make this what it is. He's looking for a way out for his culpability.
And I'm sure he's not the only 'digital miner' to stake his claim, then cash out when the pay-off fades. Big Tech is in for a very rough time...
