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At every phase of Stephen Harper’s tenure as prime minister, Liberal partisans accused him of paying too much mind to the trolls in his base and too little to ordinary hobbits whose votes swing with the wind. It was a fair criticism.

It would be more than a little ironic then, not to mention damaging to their future electoral prospects, if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Grits were to make the same mistake, albeit in more Liberal fashion, with a Starbucks latte in one hand and an edition of the New Yorker under the other arm. Friday’s Throne Speech, for all its straightforwardness in re-sketching Trudeau’s winning platform in shortened form, held a couple of glaring omissions in this regard.

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Consider “Dougie,” the famous vote-targeting construct of former Conservative backroom mastermind Patrick Muttart. Dougie is single, works at Canadian Tire and doesn’t care about politics. He probably plays hockey in a beer league, fishes on weekends and hunts in deer season ­with a rifle, not a bow. Or there’s “Steve and Heather,” a 40-something couple with three kids, a small business to run and a big focus on family, work and home.