jml
Active Member
Maybe I'm simplistic, but looking back on it, it seems obvious that a marginal, freak populist candidate benefitted serendipitously from the backlash against a gay drug addict candidate in recovery.
Whether a candidate is progressive or conservitave, they still have to capture enough of the middle ground to win, without pissing off their "base."
If your opponent drives away the middle ground all by themselves, your job is 90% done.
Rob Ford in 2010 got lucky. Too bad Toronto didn't.
It's no coincidence he won in 2010, same years the Republicans took back the house. Rob Ford benefited from a lot of media chatter about waste in government.