[killer_carlson]

I think Ford's support will go up the more carried away his critics get. Someone reported he had a parking infraction now. It's a pendulum effect and it will eventually swing back the other way.

Ford thinks that he can separate his record as mayor from his record as a person. It won't succeed.

This will instead be an election about whether voters are more concerned with balancing the budget than they are that the mayor is smoking crack.

Or to put it another way, who the voters would prefer less: a crack smoking internationally lampooned caricature or a left-wing elite who will plunge the city back into deficit.