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[Sandy]

The Cons know they can never get the popular vote so they use a different strategy. They try to cultivate interest groups like new immigrants, supporters of Israel, Canadians of Ukrainian origins, gun owners, tough on crime types, business people, old, frightened people who see their safe, secure world disappearing and many others.

At the same time, they work to discourage younger voters from voting by the constant negative attacks, the robocall scams, rewriting the elections act, flagrantly disregarding campaign laws, muzzling MPs and civil servants and all those who are supposed to audit government.

They run massive PR and marketing campaigns with both public money and the money they raise through their constant begging fundraising amongst those who have admitted to supporting them and sadly those campaigns, based on well developed marketing science, are effective.

It is a sad fact that the Harper government has as it's primary intent the propagation of Harper's grip on power and it is not done with the intent of improving the lot of Canadians or stewarding the resources of our country but instead to impose Harper's values on the country and it's citizens.

Harper will dole out goodies to the select groups he is targeting in the ridings where he needs the boost and the rest of us can go pound sand. He's been re-elected twice using this strategy since he first gained power so it's not like we didn't know what we're voting for or against. Unless more than a few people slap themselves upside the head and start using it for something besides holding up their ears, there is a very good chance he will be re-elected again.

Good post, bang on!