Politicians often ignore polls but Premier Dalton McGuinty may want to take note of these numbers.
Premier Dad has one of the worst approval ratings in the country at 16 per cent, according to a new Toronto Star/La Presse poll. Experts say this low level shows McGuinty is in trouble and he has to “reconnect” with voters well before the Oct. 6 election.
Last November, McGuinty had the exact same 16 per cent approval rate, said Mario Canseco, vice-president of Vision Critical/Angus Reid, the company that conducted the poll.
“As you get closer to the election in Ontario it is really the best moment to try and talk to those who voted for you and try to reconnect,” said Canseco. “It is not good to start the year at 16 per cent.”
The minute Warren Kinsella gets behind you, numbers begin to tumble. Here’s how it usually plays out.
Politician facing election without landslide approval hires Kinsella to Kick Ass In Canadian Politics. Warren touches everything and it turns to shit. Politician loses. Kinsella goes on his fucking blog and tells everyone that it’s the politician’s fault and how he (Kinsella) never approved of anything that was going on in the war room he was allegedly running. See also: Rocco Rossi.
The difference here is that McGuinty isn’t going to lose. Not because Warren isn’t going to try really, really hard to fuck up the election, but because McGuinty is running against a nonentity. So McGuinty will win, Kinsella will take credit, and he’ll be more insufferable than ever. In other words, the world will rotate as normal.
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Couldn’t agree more about Kinsella, but I think you’re wrong about McGuinty winning. I mean, yes, Hudak is a nonentity as you describe him (useless as a tit on a bull as my cliche-driven hubby describes him), but I believe the disgust people in Ontario feel for McGuinty is great enough that it will translate into a loss, in spite of the fact that Hudak is more concerned with the price of beer than McGuinty’s race-based policing in Caledonia, his idiotic green policies, the eHealth scandal, the Libs lack of transparency in FOI requests, etc.
No, he will lose, not because Hudak is a viable choice, but because people will go to the polls with the attitude that there is no goddamn way they’ll vote for McGuinty.