Trinity-Spadina By-Election Winners & Losers

Big Winner: Justin Trudeau. The leader of the Liberal party wrested control of the riding association from the Ianno/Innes family. He tired of their bully tactics and made it respectable to vote Liberal in the riding again. It was a gutsy move that broke a promise not to interfere in the nomination process. The Ianno/Innes tandem poisoned the well for the Liberals. Many old school party stalwarts predicted disaster for Trudeau but when it counted he delivered an important downtown riding back to the Liberal party.

Winner: Adam "No Fun" Vaughan. He may be hard for the party to whip and he may go off message but his name recognition won the day. He took on a tough NDP candidate and some high profile Liberal critics and won a solid Liberal victory.

Winner: Liberal Party. They won two Toronto seats, including an NDP stronghold and increased their voter share in all 4-ridings where by-elections were held. All the other parties lost voter share.

Winner: Joe Cressy. He lost the by-election but won the admiration of many in the riding. Ran a hard fought campaign and increased his name recognition. He will live to fight another day.

Loser: Thomas Mulcair. NDP leader lost Trinity-Spadina an NDP seat, barely registered in the Scarborough riding. The increased number of condo dwellers in the core are voting Liberal not NDP.

Loser: Stephen Harper. Lost voter share across the country. His pathetic campaign in Scarborough attempting to paint Trudeau as a drug pusher to our youth backfired in the riding and across the country. Harper is one sick SOB. Harper's hate filled endless campaigning is tiring to the Canadian public.  

Losers: Ianno/Innes, Warren Kinsella, that 19-year old Paikin kid: Justin Trudeau took the Trinity-Spadina Liberal Party Association away from the control of the Ianno/Innes family. The aforementioned Liberal stalwarts said it would backfire on Trudeau. Justin Trudeau gave a victory speech last night. The Liberal Party is trying to unseat Stephen Harper, throwing your leader under the bus and trying to disrupt that goal, for your own personal gain is punishable by banishment from the inner circle. Enjoy your timeout! Kinsella promised that Trudeau would pay for clamping down on the Ianno/Innes bully tactics. He stated outright that Cressy would win the riding. Cressy lost by 20% of the vote. The 19-year old Paikin prodigy resigned from his nomination fight in Ancaster defending the Ianno/Innes Gang. Paikin's Liberal party epitaph will read "he never was and never will be".
The voters don't care about internal party politics, they want to unseat Harper and voting Liberal is going to make that happen.

Loser: Christina Blizzard/Toronto Sun: Blizzard's fake endorsement of NDP candidate Cressy was a desperate  attempt of an extreme right-wing columnist to influence the vote in a left leaning riding. She heaped praise on Cressy, a man who holds no positions similar to Blizzard, designed only to deny Trudeau a victory in Trinity-Spadina. Blizzard wouldn't even mention her real goal, to stop the momentum of the man that has Conservatives scared across the country, Justin Trudeau.