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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
The social regressives fleeing isn't a problem from a vote perspective, but I suspect it is a big problem from a money perspective. I think this fact gets missed a lot - it's a nasty negative feedback loop of needing money to run ads to appeal to your base so they keep giving you money to run more ads...in this case it is totally counter-productive because most of the ads they run do themselves more harm than good.
I think the better calculus would have been to run super lean campaign without any pandering to the regressive base from Scheer. Let local candidate say what they will, and let Scheer try to walk the tightrope (I know this wouldn't work well) by focusing on the Liberal tribalism and over-centralized control of the Trudeau government. Hammer time and again about reforming investigation transparency, and a return to 'free' votes in the house, etc.
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It didn't work well in the past. Are you saying that wing is dying out (maybe literally)?
Letting local candidates run their mouths has gotten Scheer into trouble already. And free votes tend to make leaders look like they are only paying lip service to hot button issues and hiding their true agenda. Note I said "look like".