{"id":19161,"date":"2022-05-26T22:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T02:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19161"},"modified":"2022-05-27T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T01:19:16","slug":"ontario-voters-need-to-vote-strategically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ontario-voters-need-to-vote-strategically\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario voters need to vote strategically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people in Ontario don&#8217;t want Doug Ford to be premier again (CBC News says he has 36% whereas the combination of Liberal, NDP, Green, and Other has 64%). And rightly so &#8212; he will do very horrible things. But because of how our election system works (first past the post) he is likely to be re-elected as premier. We therefore must vote strategically. We should all agree to vote Liberal this time (I picked them because they&#8217;re ahead 27% vs NDP&#8217;s 24%) and then vote NDP next time.<\/p>\n<p>The other kind of voting that&#8217;s usually known as &#8220;strategic voting&#8221; where you do it on a more granular level might work but it seems somewhat uncertain. Here&#8217;s an article about it from CTV News, where some experts call into question the viability of the strategy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/should-you-vote-strategically-in-the-ontario-election-this-toronto-group-says-yes-1.5897363\">Should you vote strategically in the Ontario election? This Toronto group says yes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people in Ontario don&#8217;t want Doug Ford to be premier again (CBC News says he has 36% whereas the combination of Liberal, NDP, Green, and Other has 64%). And rightly so &#8212; he will do very horrible things. But because of how our election system works (first past the post) he is likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-19161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19161"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19178,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions\/19178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}