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Originally Posted by Firebot
What populist rhetoric are you talking about or can you point it out? O'Toole ran a great moderate campaign, didn't play into wedge issues that Trudeau constantly flung around and none stuck for a while. That was until Kenney happened and he was forced to answer questions about covid restrictions and vaccine mandates after Kenney's embarrassing press conference. O'Toole even had a climate change plan with carbon pricing (one of the large reasons he was booted). CPC also won the popular vote.
CPC tried the moderate route, and it failed. Liberals called an unneeded election because they were polling extremely well and were expecting to get a majority before the campaign, let's not forget. I expect that the CPC would have lost handily had they been further right instead of winning the popular vote as they did. Their shift to the center bled votes to the PPC that took 5% of the crazy vote while their lackluster message on vaccines and vaccine message when the population was predominantly pro-vaccine and pro-vaccine mandate, was an own goal.
Yet here they are. Further right than ever. Pants-on-head stupidity all by themselves as you say. 43% polling projected for supermajority status with a 20 point lead. And they are about to win handily because the alternative is just that bad. Folks who have failed at criticizing Liberals or NDP to wake up and listen to their constituents or risk to further alienate their own base, focusing solely on the CPC being bad, scary, populist, etc, are why this result is expected.
That again speaks more about the Liberal-NDP collapse than it does the CPC turning things around (which obviously they did not).
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Sheer won the popular vote too. Trudeau only won the popular vote in 2015 when he was fresh-faced, ran left of Mulcair and people were tired of Harper.