Canadian by-elections, 2015

[EPG]

I like how some people seriously think that some seats in downtown Toronto are so important that Horwatch should step down, as if they're more important than Whitby-Oshawa, or Niagara, or Kitchener-Waterloo, or London West. Obviously the NDP needs to be able to do well in Toronto to win government

I think you have answered your own question. Strong and permanent opposition is much more popular among partisans than politicians.

[EPG]

Singh would be an awesome leader, I think. But his ethnicity would be toxic in northern Ontario.

I totally disagree that people in Northern Ontario are all racists who would never vote for a party led by a South Asian. A lot of people thought that people in places like Sudbury and Thunder Bay would also never vote for a party led by a lesbian! - and last time i checked being homosexual was still somewhat more taboo than being from India - and Wynne's sexual orientation seems to have been a complete non-issue to the voters.

If the tables were turned as regards the personalities involved, I bet the NDP's failure would be blamed on the anti-LGBT bigotry of Sudbury voters.