Acknowledgments; 1 Coronation to Revolution; 2 A House Divided; 3 No Cents and Common Sense; 4 Out of the Smoke; 5 Don't Underestimate This Guy; 6 Beyond the Big Blue Machine; 7 Just Call Me Janet; 8 Dial 1-800-668-MIKE; 9 Sex, Half-truths, and Videotape; 10 Mussel Power; 11 Hey, Presto! Reform Vanishes; 12 This Bus Was a Gas; 13 Closet Politics; Illustrations; 14 Trust Me, I Can Do It; 15 With the Greatest of Respect; 16 The Young and the Hip; 17 A Blue Lady in a Red Outfit; 18 Shout at Your Spouse, Lose the Election; 19 Playing the Percentages; 20 The Dreaded Red Book.
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It wasn't so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario's political landscape in the spring of 1995 -- it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinestripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years of Tory rule. These Tories were young, hip, and they were riding the wave of their Common Sense Revolution, a platform launched a year earlier. Still, there were only a few who thought the PCs stood a chance of winning the Ontario provincial election. Though Bob Rae's NDP government was foundering, Ly.