{"id":40397,"date":"2017-10-06T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40397"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T15:15:54","slug":"new-ndp-leader-jagmeet-singh-even-gets-the-thumbs-up-from-crusty-old-conservative-fogey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/new-ndp-leader-jagmeet-singh-even-gets-the-thumbs-up-from-crusty-old-conservative-fogey\/","title":{"rendered":"New NDP leader Jagmeet Singh even gets the thumbs up from crusty old conservative fogey"},"content":{"rendered":"

That is, Singh is seen as a much bigger threat to Justin Trudeau<\/a> than to “stodgy” Andrew Scheer … which, in electoral terms, might leave the Liberals and NDP fighting it out for second place in the polls and the Conservatives up near majority territory. He’s certainly teh new hotness as far as the newspapers are concerned:<\/p>\n

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The media is buzzing about Jagmeet Singh being a game changer. Campbell Clark, writing in the Globe and Mail<\/em>, says that \u201cThe NDP once picked stalwarts to fight the good fight as leader. Now, they have chosen someone who might disrupt Canadian politics. Don\u2019t underestimate the potential for Jagmeet Singh to shake things up.\u201d Chantal H\u00e9bert, writing in the Toronto Star<\/em>, says \u201c[Andrew] Scheer has to be hoping that Singh will give Trudeau more of a run for his money, for it usually takes a divided progressive vote for the Conservatives to win power.\u201d And Lorne Gunter, writing in the Edmonton Sun<\/em>, says that \u201cTrudeau is a paper \u201cprogressive\u201d \u2013 a poser \u2013 compared to Singh \u2026 [and] \u2026 unlike Thomas Mulcair, Singh\u2019s predecessor as NDP leader, Singh won\u2019t lose core social democrat voters by running to the right of the Liberals in the next federal election the way Mulcair did in 2015 \u2026 [thus, and] \u2026 In short, Singh is a headache the Liberals never imagined having. Compared to Trudeau, he is younger (38 rather than 45), smarter, at least as well-dressed and even more of a trendy, politically correct symbol.\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cBut,\u201d Mr Gunter says, while Jagmeet\u2019s Singh\u2019s selection is bad news for the Liberals, it \u201cshould be good for the Tories \u2026 [because] \u2026 It should revive vote-splitting on the left. And it should allow Tory Leader Andrew Scheer, while dull, to appear as the only clear alternative to the two Big Government leaders.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Singh isn’t likely to draw a lot of votes from the Tories, but he’s a major threat to Trudeau in exactly those mediagenic qualities that Trudeau used to such great effect in the last federal election. Justin is in danger of being out-cooled by the new guy. A lot will depend on how long the media allows Singh’s political honeymoon to last, as they will be the primary channel for the “cool duel” to play out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That is, Singh is seen as a much bigger threat to Justin Trudeau than to “stodgy” Andrew Scheer … which, in electoral terms, might leave the Liberals and NDP fighting it out for second place in the polls and the Conservatives up near majority territory. He’s certainly teh new hotness as far as the newspapers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[188,1168,887,798,213],"class_list":["post-40397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-jagmeetsingh","tag-justintrudeau","tag-ndp","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-avz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40399,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40397\/revisions\/40399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}