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Paul Nicholson's avatar

Appreciate the mention of recency bias and will add regional bias. In my case I'm near Hamilton, with a 1 term PC incumbent where Ted McMeekin previously served as a cabinet minister for over a decade (4 elections). Yet the polls have us as a "safe" PC hold and NDP in second. Why? 2018 Liberal collapse, and the regional bias toward Hamilton NDP strongholds. I'm hoping and have some rational basis to expect a surprise locally.

Final election thoughts:

I was enraged at the PC pandemic handling and it still simmers. Others do not feel the same way and I respect but do not understand that. I spent the early days in April 2020 gathering daily fatality, infection and staffing data by phone from retirement home managers. Their despair stuck with me. It's a Lest we Forget situation for me.

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Patricia's avatar

Although the electioneering has been lacklustre, I don’t think anyone should be calling the results yet. If people are as tired as I am, just navigating through the mishmash of Covid rules/non-rules on a daily basis, maybe the numbers who do not add voting to their to-do list will make a difference. We are still not ok as far as the pandemic is concerned. Ford has a lot to answer for.

I lost a young family member to cancer during Covid. In the final weeks we couldn’t get any one to come in and care for them. Many people have been traumatized by this pandemic. Will this kind of experience be a factor?

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