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The NDP message doesn't resonate with 80% voters 80% of the time. Almost as many people who vote anybody but Tory vote anybody but NDP. Just like many NDPers vote anybody but Liberal. I think the nDP supporters on this board spend way to much time trying to figure out who spoiled their fortunes, instead of coming to grips with the fact that the message blame on business, the banks and the corporates doesn't work. Heck most in Toronto work for those business, banks or corportations!
...and the Liberal message doesn't resonate with 75% of the voters and the Green message doesn't resonate with 94% of the voters...
I think there is a legitimate question about why in this election, the NDP had great success in Hamilton, Windsor, northern Ontario and several other blue collar pockets in Ontario - but had a bit of a setback in Toronto that was totally counter to what happened everywhere else.
I think you make a valid point that Toronto is a largely white collar city (or if not white collar then aspiring to being white collar) and it may be that the class-based economic populist NDP message that worked so well in other places - doesn't resonate as well in Toronto.