While shocked scientists have learned that Einstein’s orthodoxy of the speed of light has been challenged, Tim Hudak and his Conservatives are in trouble with the scientific truths of momentum. They have lost it. After months of a high flying lead in the polls, they are mired in the doldrums of a disappointed electorate. The tortoise Liberals are sitting at the October 6 finish line, waiting for the Hudak hares.
Hudak’s handlers are looking to Tuesday’s televised leadership debate for the Hail Mary play. They are desperate. They will be twice as desperate after the debate as McGuinty will not disappoint the voters. They do not expect much from him and that is what he will deliver.
Mind you, Tiny Tim has every reason to be disappointed with Andrea Horwath. The NDP is not picking up the support from McGuinty that the Tories counted on. Some of the Liberal vote had to be bled off by the NDP to produce a clear majority for Tiny Tim’s Conservatives. The Tory brain trust saw how a resurgent NDP gave Stephen Harper’s federal party a majority in May and they counted on it in the fall. The Andrea band wagon is not happening.
Maybe if the NDP leader gets some intense body shaping and a really sexy dress for Tuesday’s TV event, she could make a difference. She is already an attractive woman but her picket-line Polly persona is a bit grating. She not only needs to lighten up but she needs to figure out what the voters really want from her. She has yet to connect.
Not that Dalton McGuinty has ever really connected but he has the one ingredient with which Hudak cannot compete: trust. After months of paying for those awful commercials hammering at McGuinty as the ‘Taxman,’ people still trust the premier more than Hudak. Beside McGuinty, Hudak is but a callow youth.
Mind you, it is not over yet. The fat lady sings on October 6 as the ballots are counted. It really does not matter if pollsters make automated telephone calls to four people, 400 people, 4000 or 40,000. People do not like those calls. Most do not answer. They hang up with expletives deleted. They lie, they ridicule. They have a high rate of inaccuracy. The only poll that matters is the report from the electoral offices.
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Copyright 2011 © Peter Lowry
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