King of Kensington
Senior Member
Tory's "base" is affluent Torontonians.
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Toronto Municipal Election 2018: Mayor’s Race
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adma
Superstar
And "white"/non-ethnoburban affluent Torontonians, as well. That's why he did so well in Etobicoke south of Eglinton. (The closest Scarborough has to anything like that is along the Bluffs.)
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
Didn't Tory win the Bluffs overwhelmingly?
W. K. Lis
Superstar
syn
Senior Member
That's exactly why he's been pushing the SSE so relentlessly.
He can't get away with not doing it.
sixrings
Senior Member
syn
Senior Member
There's a reason he doesn't want the cost revealed until after the election.
I think it's safe to say the SSE isn't getting cheaper.
vic
Senior Member
Mainstreet phone poll tonight. Few questions: Likelihood of voting, Tory/Keesmaat/Other, which part of city, and some demographic questions.
Videodrome
Senior Member
I think we got called too, but I just ignored it.
torontologist
Active Member
And unfortunately for him, a lot of those people are receptive to Jen Keesmaat's progressive messaging.
The Scarborough numbers do not surprise me. Tory radiates "elite" more than Keesmaat does.
I think she has a shot at this thing.
King of Kensington
Senior Member
I have a feeling turnout in Scarborough and NW Toronto will be quite a bit lower without a "Ford Nation" candidate on the ballot, hence increasing the voting weight of the core.
jje1000
Senior Member
Really depends- affluence, especially old affluence, does not like the boat to be rocked too much, and Kouvalis is doing his best to portray Keesmaat as a "dangerous" NDP radical.
She should do her best to paint Tory as out-of-touch and silver-spooned, no matter how populist that sounds. Not particularly hard to do with multiple instances of Tory only kowtowing once media pressure is applied.
Also interesting seeing that Warren Kinsella has thrown in his hat with the Tory-ites- surprising for someone who once campaigned for Olivia Chow:
https://twitter.com/kinsellawarren/status/1037516001850474496
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rbt
Senior Member
Yep. But the statement was the feds were looking for a workaround to uncooperative/combative provincial leadership. Their only long-shot to making that work is to claim that blocking a 100% federally funded project, which the community presumably wants, breaches one of of those sections of the Charter.
I was reaching because I don't see how feds have the authority to override a premiers direction to a municipality without an overhaul to current structure; other than to claim it's harmful in some way to the individuals of the municipality.
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Videodrome
Senior Member
I would like to see polling done with an "other" option, not just Tory and Keesmaat. I know that no one else stands a chance, but they are still registered candidates.