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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Mulroney's majority coalition was built on three voting groups:
Quebec nationalists (Bouchard et. al.)
Western conservatives
Red Tories/Blue Liberals in Ontario and Atlantic Canada
In the 1993 election, the first group went to the Bloc, the second group went to the Reform Party, and the third group went to the Liberals.
The loss of support amongst those three groups, coupled with Kim Campbell's disasterous campaign (which featured the infamous "Is this a face you can trust?" ad) resulted in the decimation of the PC Party. The fact that the Liberals won 76 seats yesterday despite a poor leader and a bad (but not as terrible as Campbell's in 93) campaign shouldn't be spun as being a "victory" for the Liberals by any means. This is, afterall, their second worst result since Confederation.
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Thanks for the history lesson, but you have apparently missed my point.
For all of the statements about "the west will always be Conservative no matter what", the same statements can be said about Liberal voters (especially GTA). It doesn't matter how horrible the leader, it doesn't matter how horrible the campaign, it's not going to matter.
The west at least tries different things - creating the Reform party, for example - when a party philosophy goes wayward... Liberal voters stay true to the brand no matter what that brand represents.