A good summary of how Ford won Ontario.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...e-ford-nation/
It validates the suggestion I made up-thread that it's the educated and affluent who seem most concerned with social policy.
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Mr. Ford’s ascendancy cements the PCs’ long transformation from a party of the powerful to a party of those who feel alienated from power. The party’s strongholds are in rural areas, small towns and some suburbs. According to Ekos Research, Conservative voters have less formal education than supporters of other parties. Men favour the PCs over the other parties. They are the preferred party of those who describe themselves as “poor.”
Central areas of Toronto and Ottawa with their affluence, trendiness, diversity, cultural institutions, government buildings, museums and concert halls, head offices, startup companies, large hospitals and universities are now NDP strongholds. Karl Marx would be shaking his head.
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