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Originally Posted by octothorp
To the earlier question on why the PCs aren't attacking the NDP yet... I think it's because they know that in attacking Trudeau, they can drive voters from Liberals and that these will go to both the NDP and PCs, turning it increasingly into a two-horse race. Down the stretch, they can use the threat of an NDP government in to rally their base, especially in Ontario where the Bob Rae government is still so famously unpopular. If they can rally an anti-NDP wave in Ontario over the last weeks of the campaign, that's probably the single best boost to their chances of holding onto government. I'd be shocked if the conservatives aren't already working on a sinister-sounding ad superimposing images of Rae and Mulclair.
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That was twenty years ago. Ontario's been through more hardships since then. I mean I guess its possible it could work on older voters but its not like the equally if not more unpopular Mike Harris government that followed in Ontario hurts Harper much (and the Liberals ran attack ads to compare them in the past).
Rae also led the Liberals for a while too... so I suppose it could be a two birds with one stone thing.