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RSS FeedsBoth working-class and `elite´ voters favour Doug Ford in Ontario election, poll shows
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21 may 2018 17:09:41

 
Both working-class and `elite´ voters favour Doug Ford in Ontario election, poll shows
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Doug Ford’s folksy appeal to “the people” and disdain for “the elites” may be winning him support in the June 7 election, but a new poll shows there is no class war in Ontario.Both working-class and so-called “elite” voters favour Ford’s Progressive Conservatives over Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals and Andrea Horwath’s NDP, according to the poll by New Square, a non-profit initiative focused on probing the views of Ontario’s working class and how they differ from elites.Both listed government mismanagement and health care as the most important election issues, according to the online poll of 1,000 English-speaking Ontarians conducted between May 10 and May 14.Neither group is happy with the leadership choices. Almost half of respondents agreed “none of the leaders stand for me,” says the poll released Monday. Because the sample is based on those who initially self-selected to participate rather than on a random sample, no estimates of sampling error can be calculated. However, of online polls of this size, the confidence interval is equivalent to 95 per cent.Although the poll found no evidence of a war between the working class and higher earners in Ontario, deep poverty does appear to be a factor, as does where one lives.Read more: Here are the four candidates wanting to be Ontario’s next premier, and what they’re promising“The results don’t show any support for Trump-style populism at this point,” said Heather Bastedo, New Square’s managing director. “The only caveat is that people in Ontario are hurting, and that’s something to watch.”Housing, crime and jobs are the top three quality-of-life concerns for those living outside the Greater Toronto Area, where Ford and Horwath are ranked very close — at 16 per cent and 15 per cent respectively — among those with a preference, the poll shows. Wynne trails at 6 per cent.But insi ...


 
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