Coletto said the Liberals’ messaging focuses too much on what they’ve done in the past and not enough on what’s next.
Thus, the Liberals need to realize they still have over two years left in their mandate, and start doing some positive stuff. Particularly on housing.
If liberal MPs are concerned, they should change their leader.
Realistically though, who are they going to pick? Mélanie Joly? Bill Blair? Chrystia Freeland? François-Philippe Champagne? It’s hard to imagine any of the usual suspects being all that popular. To the extent that any of them are known to the public I think it’s mostly not for good things. After this many years of the PM working to consolidate his power just like Harper did before him nobody else in the party has made much of a name for themselves. Of course the opposition has the same problem which is why they ended up with the current idiot for leader. He may be likely to win, but it’s no thanks to his own strength as a candidate. The NDP increasingly seems to be going the same way, even going so far as to adopt a communications style of relentlessly shallow and insipid pandering just like their big rivals, as if that’s the path to electoral success.
Ah well, Trudeau does still have the advantage in charisma at least. We’ll see if that’s enough to overcome the disadvantage of having been in power for a while. It’s not as if it’s likely that substantive well-informed debate is going to suddenly come back into fashion and be politically relevant.
Very well said. All the parties, federally and in Alberta, have failed to build capacity within their party. They all want to focus on the leader because they all want a superstar who can lead them to victory. Otherwise, political campaigns are slow, hard work. But with only one leader, there’s no succession.
Not that it’s the biggest or most urgent problem that we have in politics these days.
if an election were called today…
I don’t know why everyone is acting as if they’re in an election campaign, but “none of the above” is well in the lead for getting my vote.
I will never understand this thinking beyond apathetic people trying to present their inaction as virtuous. People like to think their silence is just like a vote for no one, but it’s just the absence of voting…
No politician is “hearing” that message, and it doesn’t affect change at all. This isn’t the US, you have options to vote for more than two parties.
Speaking from a province where this year’s election turnout was 43%, i.e. lots of people sent the “none of the above” message - no one gives a shit. Ford has claimed he got a resounding majority mandate and acts like it, pedal to the metal on the steamroller.
Lack of turnout != spoiled ballots. They are traditionally counted separately. If it’s rarely reported on these days that’s a problem with the reporters. Ford undoubtedly does not give a shit either way, but that just makes him a fine example of the kind of people who are not worth trying to persuade of anything.
Writing in “none of the above” on the ballot is no more indicative of apathy than is voting for the NDP which is what I’ve most often done in past federal elections. In fact it takes a little more work. If enough people did it the message would be heard.
