Episode #14 - Exit Music (For An Election)

This week on The Writ podcast:

In the news

• Annamie Paul resigns as Green Party leader.

• The Liberals won the mail ballots — and it could have mattered a lot had the election been closer. Read more here.

• The polls (mostly) nailed the election, again. Read more here.

Polls of the week

• A post-election “exit poll” from Léger shows us what motivated people to vote for each party.

Questions and answers

• What’s the value of reporting the national numbers in polls or election results?

• What were some big misses in the polls in Canadian elections?

• What are the odds anybody other than the Greens tries to replace their leader?

#EveryElectionProject

• The 1937 Ontario election, won by the Ontario Liberals under the hard-livin’, Mackenzie King-hatin’, Maurice Duplessis-lovin’ Mitch Hepburn.

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This week’s podcast title musical inspiration courtesy of Radiohead:

Thanks for listening!