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    adma replied to the thread Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto.
    It's less about whether he's stale and played out, and more about his representing the "natural governing entity" big-tent centre-right...
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    And critically, the Trump-friendly. For whom those characteristics are foundational to their Trump support Essentially, a Trumptrump...
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    Shades of Thatcher and the GLC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London_Council
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    It might be argued that April was still a benefit-of-the-doubt, calm-before-the-storm moment. (Or "The Storm", if we're to go by the...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    Actually, from what I gather, the bigger threat might be from independent candidates running as locals (Bonnie Critchley, Sarah...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    When it comes to transparency, you win some, and you lose some. And unless one is the sole or near-sole person who voted at a polling...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    And as I've said before, if we're to use a travel analogy, it's like putting all the eggs into the "destination" basket without regard...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    Well, here's how it goes. To take figures from 2021: again, using Parkdale-High Park as an example If you voted on e-day in polling...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    It could; but they don't do it that way. They record by polling station, not by the, er, "postcode" of whomever does the voting (and...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    And remember that it isn't just about candidates targeting demographics more specifically, but neighbourhoods, streets, even buildings...
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    adma reacted to ethan.l.cecc's post in the thread 2025 Canadian General Election with Like Like.
    I think @adma 's point is more that advance polls probably should operate the same way as e-day polls, so that analysts can get a better...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    Which is sort of a "as long as you get to a destination, the journey is irrelevant" POV. And a POV which is ultimately...barren...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    I know voter data is available. I'm talking about *polling station* data. When one votes in advance, that doesn't count t/w one's...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    However, in the past provincial election, that one location would have counted as one poll. At least the 8 polls break it all down into...
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    adma replied to the thread 2025 Canadian General Election.
    adma said: ... when everybody votes in the advance ballot, their vote disappears into a big maw, and that negates the worth of e-day...

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