John Tory has received 66.9% of the votes at the Ontario PC convention.
Wow.
UPDATE: Tory has announced he is staying. Unbelievable. With one third of the assembled delegates voting against him, after he had the whole weight of the party apparatus working for him, after he controlled the process, after questionable tactics from his side during the delegate selection process, he's staying on with 66.9%? With no obvious successor waiting in the wings, with no other leadership aspirant organizing against him (as was the case in 1983 with Clark, who got the same amount), with dozens of Conservatives who would otherwise have opposed him not bothering with the whole thing because they are busy in Ottawa, he got 66.9% and plans to stay? This is just nuts.
UPDATE II: B-Double has similar thoughts.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 6:27 PM