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Originally Posted by acottawa
I think it is worse than last time. The Liberals and NDP were running fairly moderate, centrist platforms last time (and in my view a lot of the Liberals problems stem from the fact they put the platform that won the election into the wood-chipper). Now centrist voters have a choice between the Liberals and NDP fighting over the far-left or the far-right.
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It's not so much that the Liberals put their 2014 platform in the wood-chipper (they pretty much did everything they said they would do) it's more that they added a whole bunch of extra stuff they didn't campaign on. Almost all of the signature initiatives they're now bragging about weren't mentioned in 2014 at all (free tuition for low income families, extensive minimum wage hike & labour law reform, OHIP+, etc.).
Ironically, I think if the NDP were running their 2014 platform this time, they'd be a shoe in for victory.
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