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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Telling Canadians you’re gonna fix all of their problems without a real plan on how to do so isn’t the same as actually listening to their problems and giving a #### about fixing them.
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Most elections are a referendum on the status quo. If voters a happy with it, they continue voting for the people in power. If they don’t, they vote for whoever seems like the most viable alternative.
Policy platforms - which typically aren’t released until a few months before an election - can nudge support a bit this way or that. But if the incumbents have lost the confidence of the public, the platform of the opposition doesn’t matter a whole lot.