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Old 10-22-2019, 04:16 PM   #1002
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree View Post
Which is, of course, not true looking back to 2011. The NDP gathered 30% of the popular vote, directly benefitting from the struggles of the LPC who fell to 18%.

While I agree that you can't just lump the Liberals into the left, when they fail, they lose significant numbers to the NDP. "There aren't all that many left/center voters in the LPC" is an incorrect statement.
I think what last night showed is that the true, diehard progressive vote probably sits at around 20% in this country, and there's maybe another soft-progressive/strategic-progressive bloc that sits around 10-15%.
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