For decades, elections were fought on noise, but won on pocket-book issues.
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Generally, any government that cut the misery index (inflation + unemployment) was likely to be re-elected.
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Here, however, the 24/7/364 four-year-long campaign diverges from reality.
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Unemployment in Ontario has been cut by more than 1/3.
Economic growth is better than it has been in ages.
Inflation and interest rates are both very low.
The budget is balanced, or close to it.
Transit is finally being built - if agonisingly slowly.
We are finally doing something about climate change.
How could things get better?
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Objective numbers say Kathleen Wynne has been the best premier since John Robarts.
So why isn't this government about to win in a landslide?
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Because Big Oil hates Kathleen Wynne with a passion, and has put everything into defeating her.
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And it is much easier to use homophobia and misogyny on social media to smear her than to face the fact that, objectively, this is a pretty good government.