Due to the poor attendance at Rob Ford’s campaign kickoff party, his new theme song could be “Half Empty Halls” by The Evaporators. By most accounts, the April 17, 2014 event was a flop, with low turnout, no “history in the making” moments (another Ford promise broken), none of the
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Montreal Simon: Rob and Doug Ford’s Ghastly Bigot Show
I'm sure you remember the last time Rob and Doug Ford got their own Ford Nation TV show.And how it had to be cancelled after just ONE episode. Because the Ford brothers stank out the joint.And crappy low budget Fox News North ran out of tape… Well brace yourself, they're BAAAAACK
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Scary Story of the Jailhouse Beating
The man himself is bad enough. A bully, an anti-gay bigot, a crass Con buffoon. The most famous Canadian in the world, to our everlasting shame, and the worst mayor Toronto or any other city has ever known.So the last thing I really needed to hear was more about his family's scary problems. Read
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford’s Deeply Disturbing Gangsta Fantasy Problem
I have to admit I have been doing my best to ignore Rob Ford. I find keeping up with the criminal activities of Boss Harper and his Con gang hard enough.And I fear too much exposure to that monstrous dumb as a spoon Con buffoon might drive me over the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Rob Ford and Our Divided Country
It's hard to decide which Con clown is more pathetic. The one on his way to the funeral of Nelson Mandela. The man he once called a terrorist who should be kept in prison, or hanged.Or the one waddling down the street at a Santa Claus parade throwing candy canes to
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected. I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors. 1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of Rob Ford. During
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected.I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors.1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected. I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors. 1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of Rob Ford. During
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Disecting Ford Nation – Part Three – Nov. 20, 2013
Crack smoking admission, “rage/murder threats” video, oral sex comment, international embarrassment, bullying and immature behaviour in council, … After a series of things that confirm, for most people, that Rob Ford should resign as Mayor of Toronto, Ford still enjoys significant support. Unbelievable you say? How can this be? Who
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Disecting Ford Nation – Part Three – Nov. 20, 2013
Crack smoking admission, “rage/murder threats” video, oral sex comment, international embarrassment, bullying and immature behaviour in council, … After a series of things that confirm, for most people, that Rob Ford should resign as Mayor of Toronto, Ford still enjoys significant support. Unbelievable you say? How can this be? Who are these people who still support him?
Today I will look at 5 polls done by Forum Research, Oct. 28-29, Oct. 31, Nov. 4, 2013, Nov. 6, 2013 and Nov. 20, 2013. Again, I will look at the groups with the highest initial approval ratings on Oct. 28-29 to see if there are any significant changes.
Significant observations
• Overall approval has stayed about the same
• Support remains highest among men
• Support from seniors continues to drop (by 10% since the first of these polls), and Other Christians (by 15%)
• We see a sudden drop in support in the recent poll among these groups: Scarborough, Low Income, Other Christian
• We see a significant rise in support amongst these groups that formerly had lower support ratings: 45-54 years of age, Etobicoke or York, Renters, $60-$80k, Catholics, Households with children
What does this mean?
We can see that the demographics of Ford Nation are changing somewhat as a result of the new revelations and incidents. Some people are starting to change their mind against Rob Ford, while others are becoming more supportive, thus, keeping the approval rating fairly steady.
The biggest swing between groups is the drop in support in Scarborough and the rise in support in Etobicoke. Maybe this means that the people of Scarborough are having second thoughts about the expensive subway plan (vs. the already-paid-for LRT plan), and the people of Etobicoke are feeling the need to rally around their hometown boy.
Below are levels from the 1st date to the latest date
Approval
39% – 44% – 43% – 44% – 42%
Disapproval
61% – 56% – 57% – 56% – 58%
Let’s look at the groups with the highest initial approval rating, in other words, Ford Nation.
NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE (within 5% from 1st to last poll) – THE BASIC CORE
Transportation – drivers
50% – 49% – 48% – 48% – 47%
Property Owners
43% – 45% – 46% – 44% – 40%
Ethnicity – Other European (non-UK background)
54% – 45% – 53% – 53% – 53%
Education – some college or university
50% – 54% – 57% – 52% – 55%
SIGNIFICANT RISE IN SUPPORT – THE RABID FANS
Gender – male
43% – 46% – 45% – 50% – 49%
DROPPED AND THEN LEVELLED OFF
Voted for Rob Ford
84% – 78% – 74% – 77% – 77%
SIGNIFICANT DROP IN SUPPORT
Region – Scarborough
51% – 54% – 55% – 59% – 43%
Household Income – less than $20k
56% – 47% – 56% – 54% – 49%
Age – 65+
49% – 41% – 42% – 40% – 39%
Religion – “Other Christian” (not Catholic, Protestant or Evangelical)
66% – 56% – 55% – 57% – 51%
And here are new groups that have, over the time of these polls, risen to be the top supporters that were not initially top supporters.
Age – 45-54
46%
Region – Etobicoke or York
57%
Renters
46%
Household income – $60-$80k
53%
Religion – Catholic
54%
Have Children
49%
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Disecting Ford Nation – Part Three – Nov. 20, 2013
Crack smoking admission, “rage/murder threats” video, oral sex comment, international embarrassment, bullying and immature behaviour in council, … After a series of things that confirm, for most people, that Rob Ford should resign as Mayor of Toronto, Ford still enjoys significant support. Unbelievable you say? How can this be? Who
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Ford Nation dumped? Stay tuned for more program changes at Sun News Network
Toronto City Hall. Actual city halls in Canada’s largest city may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Rob Ford, Doug Ford, Kory Teneycke and Ezra Levant. Does anyone seriously believe Sun News Network cancelled Ford Nation after its inaugural show on Monday because of Rob and Doug Ford’s “relative inexperience
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Low-Hanging Fruit
Feeling singularly uninspired this morning, I offer a tidbit of the obvious: ‘Ford Nation,’ that much vaunted segment of the population that stands by their man no matter what, is under-educated and from lower-income backgrounds. Since I am not one of those that the Fords and their right-wing fellow travellers
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Breaking: The Ford Nation is Dead !!!!
Well at least on Sun TV. Less than 24 hours after its debut on Monday night, the conservative cable news channel axed Ford Nation, its highly touted TV talk show starring Rob and Doug Ford, despite record ratings for the network. Read more »
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Kory Teneycke Talks Ford Nation Cancellation: The Secret Draft Statement
The verdict is in! Ford Nation the show sucked monkeys! Kory Teneycke has made an official public statement, but I have been given a secret recording, which I believe to be genuine, of what is purported to be a dictation of the first draft of this statement. As you can
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Day of Judgement
Now its beyond denial, now it's psychosis. Now he's no longer satisfied with being the Crack Mayor of Toronto. Now he's telling Fox News he wants to be Prime Minister. Read more »
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: It’s not really about the crack, or at least it’s…
It’s not really about the crack, or at least it’s not all about the crack. The crack-centred Rob Ford jokes, skits, songs and Internet memes certainly have been entertaining, but Ford’s recent crack use is but one of the many reasons he is hopelessly unqualified to be mayor of the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Medium Of The Moronic
New and long-term members of the Profoundly Stupid Club can rejoice: their mascots, Rob and Doug Ford, the darlings of the dimwitted, the bastions of the benighted, the exemplars of intellectual enfeeblement, will live to fight another day. Sun News, favored by those who like their commentary simple and absolutist,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford’s Other Criminal War on Toronto
Imagine you're in the back of an ambulance in Toronto. You're desperately trying to keep a person alive until you can get him or her to a hospital. The lights are flashing, the siren is screaming, but you're not going anywhere because the streets are clogged with traffic.And then the
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Shed a tear for Rob Ford … or risk making a ‘red meat conservative’ blubber
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone – as long as the person getting stoned is a conservative. Below: a typical strained pea conservative blubbers, although not in this case about the cruel treatment meted out to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford by liberal bullies and the media.
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