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Originally Posted by Docere
Populist doesn't mean "most popular." By that definition the decisively unpopulist Gordon Campbell (basically a Mulroney-style suit) was the most populist leader of all, given that he got 57% of the vote and 77 of 79 seats in 2001.
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I know. Clark wasn’t populist because she wasn’t trying to represent the wishes of the mainstream BC’er. Or at least she failed at it while trying