[JohnnyB]

The funny thing to me about Harper trying to pull the Rob Ford GTA vote is that I imagine many of those voters are exactly the type of voters who would rather spend election day watching the Jays. Those who have been really motivated for change are more likely to have voted early, and have voted liberal in key ridings, while those who are part of the Rob Ford everyman demographic seem just that much more likely to spend these next days reading the sports pages and getting hyped for the game rather than casting a ballot.

I laugh at the notion that Harper has further embarrassed the party by connection to the Fords in a last ditch effort to win some key ridings where he's focused on getting votes from the less politically engaged only to potentially be defeated by a baseball team whose playoff games are more compelling to that group of voters than the conservative message. A stumbling, bumbling hail mary play equivalent to Ford himself trying to throw a real football.