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To return to this...
...relative to the previous "Rob Ford in second" poll, wouldn't that be more flat than rising? Which'd seem to suggest to me that there's a definite plateau to his support--and, let me be honest: despite all the so-called "bad publicity" and "remind the people of what an ugly oaf he is", I wasn't necessarily expecting his support would skid from that previous poll, either. Such is the nature of his kind of populism.
True, the high-minded oppositional strategy is to "let Rob Ford be himself"--but it seems to be a little pretentious and even fueling-his-fire to expect that to shove him back down to a Nunziata/Jakobek level of support he, uh, "so richly deserves". It could just as well mean that now that he's in his mid-20s, he's going to stay there--just make sure that at least one of the others surfaces above the mid-20s...
... and the need for a sensible centre/right candidate able to kick Ford out of the race just got more urgent: Rob Ford is rising in the polls, a close second to Smitherman. Rossi and Pantalone are fizzling.
George Smitherman 34%
Rob Ford 27%
Thomson 14%
Rocco Rossi 13%
Pantalone 9%
Giorgio Mammoliti 4%
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontomayoralrace/article/819508--may-poll-had-thomson-ahead-of-pantalone?bn=1
...relative to the previous "Rob Ford in second" poll, wouldn't that be more flat than rising? Which'd seem to suggest to me that there's a definite plateau to his support--and, let me be honest: despite all the so-called "bad publicity" and "remind the people of what an ugly oaf he is", I wasn't necessarily expecting his support would skid from that previous poll, either. Such is the nature of his kind of populism.
True, the high-minded oppositional strategy is to "let Rob Ford be himself"--but it seems to be a little pretentious and even fueling-his-fire to expect that to shove him back down to a Nunziata/Jakobek level of support he, uh, "so richly deserves". It could just as well mean that now that he's in his mid-20s, he's going to stay there--just make sure that at least one of the others surfaces above the mid-20s...