{"id":327210,"date":"2021-08-18T22:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sorry-you-cut-out-there-electioneering-in-the-covid-era\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:22:57","slug":"sorry-you-cut-out-there-electioneering-in-the-covid-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sorry-you-cut-out-there-electioneering-in-the-covid-era\/","title":{"rendered":"#Sorry, you cut out there: Electioneering in the COVID era"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Sorry, you cut out there: Electioneering in the COVID era<\/strong>”
\n\"(Twitter\/@theJagmeetSingh)\"<\/p>\n

What’s a politician to do when they can’t shake a hand, kiss a baby, or\u2014as the Prime Minister app<\/a>arently likes to do\u2014balance an acrobatic child on his palms? The answer is the same unfortunate virtual reality that thousands of at-home workers have faced in the last 18 months: Zoom calls. The leaders are still bouncing around the country, to be sure; the Conservatives recently unveiled their airplane<\/a>, which will likely bypass most safe ridings in favour of flippable ones. Justin Trudeau is taking a slow route from Quebec into Ontario<\/a>\u00a0to start. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh started touring the Atlantic provinces<\/a>\u00a0in early August, but flew across the country to Burnaby, B.C. There, he accepted his riding nomination<\/a>\u00a0before the large Zoom screen you see in the image above, which his team quickly tweeted. It’s a sign of the times, no doubt signalling smaller events, fewer rallies and more virtual town halls, which O’Toole has already leaned into heavily from Ottawa. A hopeful voter might assume this leads to fewer parlour tricks and pep rallies, but the cynical voter knows it will only result in more staged photo ops. If Singh can’t hold a baby in person, we can at least see a photo of him holding one on the side of his campaign bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check\u00a0<\/em>Macleans.ca\u00a0every weekday of the election, as writer Michael Fraiman\u00a0dissects an image\u00a0that tells a story from the campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n

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