Conventional wisdom would have us believe that there are urban politics and suburban politics, and that, between the two, the Green party is more appealing to the downtown crowd.
But some surprising new polling by Harris/Decima is turning that assumption on its head.
In its two most recent surveys of party preference in the GTA, Harris/Decima has found that the Green party is thriving in the mainly suburban, 905 area code – 16 per cent support in polling carried out over the last week, 17 per cent in a survey carried out toward the end of December.