The anybody-but-Ford momentum

This afternoon I ran into a fellow tenant who voted in the advance poll for the Toronto mayorship and was forthright in saying that she voted for Smitherman to stop Ford. I mentioned that I was still in the 'undecided' category. So they seem to be out there --- 'they' being the voters who cast their vote for Smitherman to stop Ford from being the next mayor of Toronto.

Was it only a few weeks ago that George Smitherman declared that he was 'the man to beat' and is therefore leading the anybody-but-Ford movement. That was when polls showed that the Etobicoke councillor had a 24-percentage-point lead over Smitherman. The numbers served as a battlecry for 'Furious' George who (figuratively) donned boxing gloves and asked voters to rally around an anybody-but-Ford camp.

In an October 14 article putting Smitherman and Ford deadlocked in a sprint to the finish, the Globe and Mail cited voters gravitating around the former not because they're 'enamoured' with the former deputy premier but because of antipathy towards the latter.

Will this anybody-but-Ford momentum translate into votes for George Smitherman and the brass ring? We have a week to go and votes to count when polls close on October 25.