With a month to go, a poll on the popular support for the three main candidates for mayor is out today (Monday, September 29, 2014). It shows that John Tory has 37%, Doug Ford 30% and Olivia Chow 21%. It is a robo-call poll done by Mainstreet Technologies and some may find the technology doubtful. But there it is. Most critically, is it the kind of information John Tory might act on to call out Rob Ford on his class warfare election campaign? Tory is down somewhat in this poll, Ford up. Tory has been playing it cool in the face of Ford’s naked appeal to envy and resentment at a mythical class of people which is out to oppress the little man. Mainstreet Technologies
