I think y'all are wrong, lol. Yes, he was voted in mainly by the middle class donut. You can't claim that Ford is a tool of the rich when the person leading the charge against him is one of the wealthiest, most influential, and most elite Torontonians ( Adam Vaughan ). The whole conservatives = wealthy argument breaks down completely in this case.

I absolute do blame the liberals for making him look good. For starters, it's almost impossible in this city to separate "the liberals" from "the media". There is so much inbreeding between the two in this city that to pretend there isn't bias is simply intellectually dishonest.

The reason that Ford remains so popular is that every time he fails at something the attacks are over the top. This is exactly the same situation as Obama in the U.S. Ford said he wanted to lose weight, made it a goal, and then went off his diet. BFD. We have all done that. Rather than have it be a mention somewhere in the back of a newspaper it was the lead story on CP24 for a week! That's insane it made a lot of people who didn't really care either way see him as a victim.

The whole impeachment thing over the charity was just stupid. Really, it was stupid. It was the liberals and the media desperately trying to make a mountain out of a molehill and Ford came out once again looking like a victim. In that case it was warranted as the whole thing really felt like petty persecution from a group of elites ( led, of course, by Adam Vaughan ).

With the crack thing Ford caught a tremendous break in that the story dragged out so very long that by the time the video surfaced no one cared. Had the video popped in the first week or two of the story it may have been different. Had the media not already beat the "Ford is bad" drum into the ground with stupid stories about his weight and the charity thing, he would have easily been run out of office. Easily. Instead, it was impossible to get rid of the guy.

Again, all of this parallels Obama in the U.S. Both are very poor leaders who have no business in office. Both engage in rampant cronyism in efforts to hide the fact that they are in way over their heads. Both are surrounded by a cult of personality that will defend them regardless of the amount of mental gymnastics required to do so. And in both cases, their opposition erected so many straw men that when actual problems arose the center, where every election is ultimately won or lost, had heard so many false or overblown accusations that they had simply stopped listening.

So, yeah... Ford may get re-elected. And if he does it WILL be the fault of this city's liberals. No, not the actual street-level liberals. Not the voters with liberal views. But the "liberal elite" that are so firmly entrenched in this city. Those liberals created Rob Ford. He is their Frankenstein. And for reasons I cannot fathom they keep feeding him.