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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
From what I've been able to read, a lot of the support that Mark Carney would potentially gain as Liberal Leader to close the gap on the Conservatives is actually coming from the NDP. Which maybe suggests the Liberals should be looking to go more extreme to the left to try and entice more NDP support into their party.
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Nah, I think it's more the opposite. Mark Carney is a well known (relatively speaking), well regarded central banker who has also worked on Wall Street... that's not the dippers M.O.
He's already taken in a good chunk of them by virtue of appearing to be a serious, competent, even-tempered, adult at the table and I think a serious normal human being has a lot of appeal right now... but he's not going to be pulling in Campus club types so it makes no sense to position himself to try.
In fact I think it makes more sense to try and pull in folk who would otherwise be swing voting for the CPC. You know the folk who don't give a whit about any of the culture warrior baloney and also just want a serious competent stable person who can prudently speak to the nations finances without drifting into slobbering cryptobro blather.