The conventional wisdom has it that Justin Trudeau has the leadership of the Liberals all but in the bag. Well, all I can say is that the conventional wisdom is ill-informed, and I believe that the contest is a whole lot closer than it appears. First off, Joyce Murray has
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Not an Official Green Party Canada Site: Uniting Progressives: A meaningless Mantra for the Liberals.
Every time I hear, or read about ‘uniting the left’, or ‘uniting progressives’ to get rid of the Conservatives, it makes me wince. And every time I read some journalist – pundit pontificating on the certainty of perpetual Conservative governments unless the LEFT unites, I get even more irritated. I
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Building the Database: Conservative Union busting campaign.
So I have blogged on what the bare existence of the Supporter category of membership means to the Liberal Party. In a nutshell, it means that the Liberals have woken up to the fact that a robust and healthy contact database provides the means to establish a dialogue with Canadians
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Liberalist 101: The Fundamentals of effective political databases.
I have blogged repeatedly on what the Liberal Party needs to do to effectively contest elections in Canada. THE most important thing that will need to happen is to implement a far more sophisticated approach to populating, managing, and deploying their electoral database; Liberalist. In this post I shall strip
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: The Real world of Electoral Politics: Coming soon to a Liberal Party near you!
Every time I think about the long decline of the Liberal Party, I recall vividly a conversation I had over coffee with my local Liberal counterpart back in 2007. We were discussing a municipal election, and the conversation turned to local Green Party ‘doings’. I was pretty chuffed at the
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Liberal Party Supporter woes, And Joyce Murrays turbo booster.
So yesterday there was some `bad news` for Liberals in the media, naturally followed by further revelations and commentary today. Well I have news for you, it is not as big a deal as some would have us think. As I have repeated many times, the real value of the
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Micro-Targeting, Liberalist and the Liberal Party’s opportunity.
Bullseye Communications Today, I sat down in the morning to check out the news, and found two articles in the Hill Times about, and by Conservatives, that are extremely revealing to the careful reader. I joined the Liberal Party last year when they created the Supporter category of membership, because
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Trudeau gets it too: Introducing the next Prime Minister.
I just followed a link to a Globe & Mail article: “Inside Justin Trudeau’s war room“. I was elated at what I read, because it confirms my belief that the Liberal Party is going to re-write the book on electoral politics in Canada. That is not a shallow conclusion based
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Liberals Supporter category vital. What happens after the leadership race?
I first realised that my old friend, the Liberal Party of Canada was on the path to recovery when they introduced the Supporter category early in 2012. Canadians were invited to formally become a supporter of the Liberal Party, and offered a vote in the leadership contest as an inducement.
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Unite the progressives? Not much of a solution.
For several years there has been a scattered sense amongst some so-called `progressives` that the progressive left should merge, or co-operate electorally to keep the Conservative Party out of power. No less a Liberal luminary than Jean Chretien has called for a formal merger between the Liberals, the NDP, and
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: The Liberal Party Supporter category: Takach gets it. Does anybody else?
Yesterday I read a Toronto Star article entitled: How federal Liberals are using leadership race to get back in the game. The premise of the article is that the new supporter category is a game changer for the Liberal Party, and that this late entry into the data collection business
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Liberalist: The Liberal Party is FINALLY fixing their greatest failure.
The real world of electoral politics has been changing for over a decade. The Liberal Party of Canada has finally, at the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour noticed WHY they have all but disappeared. It boils down to the fundamentals of the new politics. Know the electorate well, and
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: The Rob Ford Story: It ain’t over by a long shot.
Rob Ford will probably win if there is a mayoral by-election, and the reasons I outline here should be obvious to all. It’s all about loyalty of the base vote, low turnouts, and the power of Ford electoral machine. Toronto progressives had better stop partying and get to work or they will be wondering W.T.F. happened on by-election EDay.
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Complete Game Changer for the Liberal Party: ‘Supporter’ votes for Leadership.
I am betting that very few people indeed have given much thought to the Liberal Party’s new ‘supporter’ category of membership. I guess I can see why. Most Liberals thrive on the ins and outs, the manoeuvering and machinations of Leadership politics. The media are even more enthralled, as can
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