Wake up! Tory's talking tax cuts
Fighting the regressive health tax is definitely a vote getting strategy for the Ontario Tories, however, if their communications shop is content on framing it [the message] in a manner in which it appears as though a boring financial planner/accountant is trying to sell insurance on a cloudy monday morning, then there is absolutely no way this policy [tax cuts] will resonate with the average Ontario voter or taxpayer. I mean, if he wasn't already uncharismatic enough, they dropped a ring binder flat in his lap so as to allow him to peer down at talking points. Yikes!!
As the saying goes, "it's not what you say, it's how you say it". Methinks the latest poll numbers describe just how poorly the tax cut message is getting out as disenchanted voters seem to be parking their support with the NDP and Greens.
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My family was charged 460 dollars this year. Mcguinty's gotta go.
Unacceptable. Which is why the Tories must find a way to make McGuinty's flip-flops on taxes appear agregious --- and make it stick.
Thus far, they haven't.
They're getting beat to the punch...
http://www.freedomparty.on.ca/election2007/top.priorities.htm
Yeah, I don't see much clout coming from the freedom party, but I don't feel so bad for posting since posting on ontario seems about as common as posting on NB here. Polls are almost as confused as actual votes are, but since the NDP numbers are fairly steady from last election its more likely that disenchanted liberals are floating back to the conservatives. People assume that there is a big difference between liberals and tories, but not really so much. Yes, its true there was a tax increase, and we're paying a lot more even than $460 dollars, and not only that, I need a surgery that isn't covered under the health act which means it'll cost me $1200. Of course I'd STILL prefer that to having natives and rural people killed thanks mostly to the massive cuts in services.
The big difference I think with this election is the yawn factor. While ontarians were anxious to get rid of Harris, giving squinty mcguinty more than half the vote, something rarely done nowadays, this time there really is no real big issue or driver. No candidate is talking about the environment, or any changes to the status quo. And the politicians seem almost as bored as the public. I suspect from most polls that lots of ontarians who at least know something about politics are trying to figure out how to get a minority government (and hopefully we can get most of them reading the fairvote literature).
But again, just go back to the Harper tories, there is no more ideological difference between parties anymore, the economy sets the agenda.
brent: believe it or not the Freedom party and the tories have different takes on fiscal policy. Just take a look at both their gas tax proposals.
Mikel: Since we're on the subject of Ontario elections and I know you've been following MMP closely, do you think holding the referendum on the same day as the electin will increase voter turnout for any party's particular base?
I know Karl Rove was a master at these kind of things during elections as they used to construct resolutions on same sex marriage so that they could Rove inspire the base to disregard the polls and come out to vote. They did it in swing states where there was a high percentage of evangelicals that cared about moral issues.
However, I haven't seen any polls lately which suggest a particular demographic is embracing electoral reform.
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