{"id":805,"date":"2006-02-20T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=805"},"modified":"2006-02-20T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T19:07:00","slug":"follow-the-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

SES has a poll out today<\/a>, asking Ontarians who they want as the next Liberal leader. While these polls are fun, keep in mind:<\/p>\n

a) It includes Brian Tobin and Frank McKenna.
b) It’s missing the names of a lot of people who will run.
c) It only polls people in Ontario, which one imagines works in favour of Dryden, Stronach, Ignatieff, and Rae. (And, I guess, Volpe too…although you wouldn’t know it by the results)
d) Most importantly, it’s a poll of everyone<\/em> in Ontario, regardless of political affiliation. Just as my choice to be the next CPC leader would be Stockwell Day, I’m sure a lot of Tories would be salivating at the prospect of seeing Belinda as their opponent.<\/p>\n

All we can really read into this poll is that average Canadians have no overwhelming favourite.<\/p>\n

In other news, the Hill Times <\/a>is floating Domic LeBlanc’s name for leadership. Wikipedia also has him on their very thorough list of candidates<\/a>. They’ve also got Cotler and Ianno listed but until I see their names somewhere else, I’ll leave ’em off my list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the National Executive laying down the timeline and rules for the leadership contest on March 18th, I suspect we won’t see many more candidates officially declare until then. But anyone who’s serious about building a credible organization will have to announce their intentions in the last half of March. Until then, we can only speculate:<\/p>\n

Declared
<\/strong>Martha Hall Findlay<\/p>\n

Likely To Run<\/strong>
Frank McKenna<\/strike>
John Manley<\/strike>
Michael Ignatieff
Belinda Stronach
Scott Brison
Joe Volpe
Maurizio Bevilacqua<\/p>\n

Possible Candidates
<\/strong>Ken Dryden
Martin Cauchon
Gerard Kennedy
Bob Rae
Brian Tobin<\/strike>
Allan Rock<\/strike>
Stephane Dion
Ujjal Dosanjh<\/strike>
John Godfrey
Borys Wrzesnewskyj
Denis Coderre
Carolyn Bennett<\/p>\n

Wild Speculation<\/strong>
Glen Murray
Jane Stewart
Sheila Copps<\/strike>
George Smitherman
Anne McLellan
Christy Clark
Clyde Wells
Dennis Mills
Hedy Fry
David McGuinty
John Parisella
Paddy Torsney
Joe Fontana
Ruby Dhalla
Louise Arbour
Paul Zed
Dominic LeBlanc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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