Thread by @SplendidIsolat2

1/ This article could be titled:

"How the Liberals won by realizing that @erinotoole was a flip-flopper and @CPC_HQ campaign staff can't keep up"

thestar.com/politics/feder… #cdnpoli #CPC

2/ "Liberal research concluded that @erinotoole was a flip-flopper: he would say whatever he thought was politically expedient — even if he never held those views before — and showed a remarkable willingness to throw out positions when they were no longer convenient"

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3/ How @CPC_HQ came up with vaccine policy:

"@erinotoole's advisers spent the next two weeks researching and consulting focus groups on the question of mandatory vaccination"

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4/ Dealing with dissent:

"O’Toole’s campaign chair called Jonas Smith, #CPC_HQ's Yukon candidate, an opponent of mandatory vaccination, to urge him to step down"

"A day later, Smith said, the chair called back to dump him as #CPC candidate, in breach of party rules"

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5/ "During campaign, Trudeau was absent from key battlegrounds in Ontario for no longer than 3 days"

"Meanwhile, O’Toole had meetings from a dark studio. The @CPC_HQ leader had spent 14 out of 31 days — nearly half of campaign by then — cooped up in his TV studio"

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6/ Key assumption of @CPC_HQ hacks during campaign:

"The move angered hard-line Conservatives, but O’Toole’s camp believed they would vote for the party anyway"

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7/ "Unlike the the Conservatives, who mostly stuck to their initial plans, there was a nimbleness to the Liberals’ campaign, especially with regards to the leader’s tour"

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8/ "Trudeau would appear at 17 events over the final three days, finishing with a sprint across 4 provinces in 24 hours. @erinotoole would do 6 events"

"The mood on the Conservative bus suggested those aboard felt they had already lost"

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9/ @CPC_HQ can't say this:

“The way the Liberals won is we pulled our base out. We have expanded it over the years. We have solidified it and invested in it. When we needed it, we knew how to find them. We knew how to get them out, and we got them out efficiently”

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10/ "The Liberals’ data strength continues to be the envy of its challengers. On any given day during the campaign, the Liberals say they reached between 1.5 million and 3 million Canadians with thousands of different ad variations on Facebook and Instagram"

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11/ "While data guides decisions, and content helps mobilize people to the polls, Liberals are very proud of their ground game and years spent cultivating a team of motivated volunteers — who made more than 15 million door-knocks/calls this year"

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