Ontario goes to the polls in a month, and Doug Ford will likely win again. Why? Because the Liberal and NDP leaders have failed to connect with the people of Ontario the way Ford has.
in 2008. then you see the figure on his left start sprinting to the far edge of the frame. conveniently skipping over the trump years entirely. until 2021 the woke progressive is calling everyone to his rights bigots and the guy who was center left finds himself center right. if you find this as an attempt to explain his own evolution, musk followed up with a tweet saying, the far right hates everyone, themselves included. quickly following up, i m not a fan of of the far right either. i get the frustration. but where you stand is often a matter of where you sit. here s the real question, is it remotely true that democrats have moved further toward the fringe than republicans since 2008? well, the shift from 2008 gop nominee john mccain to mitt romney to donald trump would seem to answer that question, but let s put facts over feelings and dig into the data. so, polarization has been growing for decades in congress but voting patterns show
voting pattern? i think it may well. oh wow, when you have none other than van jones suggesting black americans might change their voting patterns away from checking the democrat box, you could have big trouble. so gianno, to you first you understand the black community better than most what is going on here? i thought you re going to the other black person on the panel, jimmy do you qualify? soap start about race like hunter biden. i ve got to tell you, it is interesting to me that since the 2020 election and i would argue that joe biden has never really truly been popular with african-americans. but since then i have friends in l.a., african-americans who made fun of me working for fox news and being a conservative who are now posting more about conservatism on instagram and facebook than any other time that i ve ever seen in my life. joe biden is creating more conservatives because african-americans have realized
gave the most during the election, a historic election, 2020 and have gotten the least. if you look at voting rights, so far nothing. police reform, so far nothing. you look at some of the student loan stuff, very little. so what was motivating african american voters left, right and otherwise, were that somebody was going to come to our rescue. the day to day reality for black folks hasn t improved, in fact, because of inflation and other things gotten worse, so you re starting to see that disappointment factor set in. do you think it will change the voting patterns? i think that it may well. also don t forget you have had a concerted effort on the part of conservatives to recast republican party as the party of the multiracial working class. republicans have moved right on cultural issues, we react to that, they moved left on to economic issues. you see republicans more open to, you know, tariffs, more open to protecting american workers, that kind of stuff. so i think we underre
Many factors affect the decision of whether or not to vote in an election: the decision is mostly about motivation, interest in politics and sense of duty.