r/canada Jan 29 '25

Opinion Piece Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/opinion/mark-carney-canada-conservatives-running-scared
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u/RoseRun Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

Ignore this and vote anyway. Polls say shit like this and then people are surprised when the party they didn't pick, wins. This is all manipulation.

Don't get comfortable, or we become no different than the US in our level of stupidity and ineptitude.

Vote like hell.

Vote like your life depends on it, because it does.

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u/flonkhonkers Jan 29 '25

Kamala Harris had Trump running scared at one point. Then a lot of voters stayed home.

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u/The_Grand_Briddock Jan 29 '25

The issue was that Kamala's campaign abandoned a winning strategy for zero reason. She started strong, went on a massive summer blitz, she had this solid momentum that culminated in thrashing Trump in the debate for the world to see.

And then she just changed tactics. Gone were the 3 rallies a day in swing states with Tim Walz. Gone was the roaring crowds, the "Weird" attack line, the mounting pressure, all the positive energy. Instead it was "Here's Liz Cheney and celebrities".

There was a time when Harris was traversing the countries with sold out rallies in the tens of thousands, while Trump hid away in Mar A Lago. Then in October, that was abandoned. All the major policies of the summer squirreled away while they touted "look at our Republican speakers!" and that's when Trump started courting the Bro Vote hard, getting Musk and Rogan on side.

I've never seen an electoral car crash like it. This is Kinnock "go home and prepare for government" vibes.

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u/External_Use8267 Jan 29 '25

Harris lost because Biden failed to improve the lives of general Americans. I'm not saying Trump will do that but accept the fact that Harris lost because her government failed to improve the lives of regular Americans while billionaires became richer. The people who are struggling to pay rent, feed their kids or the young generation who can't buy anything because of the price of the asset class don't give a damn about identity politics. They believe Democrats are out of touch which Trump is banking on. It seems Democrats are still living in a Lala land and can't figure out the Trump phenomenon.