Can't say they don't deserve it, but what a fumble by the Conservatives. Literally all they had to do was be relatively normal, and they'd have probably easily won a majority. But the party leadership just can't help themselves and had to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
You'd think a cursory look at favorability ratings would have made them dial back on pushing Poilievre so hard as the face of the party (even at peak popularity, he was never better than -15 or so in the polls I've seen), but instead they doubled down. Basically 1/3rd of their platform document was pictures of him (the Liberals' platform at a single picture of Carney on the cover). Not that the average person reads platforms, but that's just an example of their mindset.
I guess they assumed as long as they got 35-40% of the vote they'd win no matter what, but they truly underestimated how unlikeable he is to the majority of the population. That's why the NDP and Bloc votes shifted Liberal and why he lost his own seat.
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