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It was poignant that Doug Ford’s campaign bus parked at the Congress Centre was just steps from his first news conference as Ontario’s next premier.

It was a bus no media member ever stepped on. Ford didn’t need the media.

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In fact, the premier-elect went around the media in this campaign and went straight to regular Ontarians.

It worked.

In the end many media and polling companies painted a phantom scenario that it was a neck-and-neck race with the NDP when it wasn’t. The public spit that out because it was all nonsense.

The voters saw all the smear attempts on Ford for what it was — nasty, opportunistic politics.

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As hard as they tried to define Doug Ford, he didn’t get cornered by any of it. The thing is people know Doug is a decent guy and they know his heart is in the right place. That is why they gave him 76 seats and sent Premier Kathleen Wynne packing, replacing her in opposition with Andrea Horwarth and the largely radical NDP.