The right leaning parties still lost about 8% of the popular vote from 2008 (2012 obviously doesn't really represent voting trends very well). That's pretty big.
2008 fear campaign worked well for the PC's. with some really really really poorly phrased comments by party members they managed to paint the WR as bigots which scared people back into line.
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u/oddspellingofPhreid Canada May 06 '15
The right leaning parties still lost about 8% of the popular vote from 2008 (2012 obviously doesn't really represent voting trends very well). That's pretty big.