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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
Can't see how 'ideology driven' applies to this NDP. It's hard to know what Mulcair's NDP even stand for right now - which probably appeals to no one, and I guess we see that in the polls now.
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I think everyone can believe that the CPC and LPC are sort of ideologically mushy big-tent parties. They sort of move right and left within a pretty defined parameter in order to win votes in different regions. This has what has lead both of them to basically be parties trading off between ruling and opposition for Canada's history. Pretty simple stuff.
I think the NDP thought that they could make that move too, and basically replace the Liberals as the natural governing choice for a progressive big-tent that included inner-city urban voters across Canada, rural parts of Ontario and BC, and soft nationalists in Quebec. The problem I think is that too much of this was based around the mass appeal of a single leader, and less based around a believable shift away from their core ideology of socialism.