“His support is rock solid. He’s absolutely rock solid,” said Bruce Davis. “He’ll be very strong going into the election… The people who hated him before still hate him. The people who love him still love him. I haven’t met a single person who has changed their mind (because of the latest controversy).”
Davis says back in 2010, the Smitherman campaign did focus group testing where they asked voters about previous Ford controversies and political gaffes.
“One woman said – and I’m not suggesting he does this, but this is what she said — ‘If I have to choose between someone who wastes our money and someone who (breaks the law), I’ll choose the person who (breaks the law.)’”
Now, poll results released Saturday would only appear to back Davis’s view to a point.
The Ipsos Reid survey found that 34 per cent of Torontonians said they’d vote to re-elect Ford if an election were held tomorrow.
The Toronto Star, being The Toronto Star, had to include a few smears of Rob Ford in the process.
But notice how, in true al Starzeera fashion, the people they quote supporting Ford are named and on-the-record, while the ones they use to smear him are their usual anonymous, unnamed sources.
I wonder if those unnamed sources are actually Star Editors?
h/t BCF
Bruce Davis - TDSB.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Smitherman - the multiple billion dollar man's campaign manager.
Story from a teacher leaked to the Star that Ford slugged a football player.
Source?
But it never happened.