Ahead of the 27 October Toronto mayoral election, it's also likely the thinking elsewhere in what was once Toronto proper, the now generally liberal core of the megacity, which is surrounded by the more suburban areas and former municipalities which were largely responsible for Ford's victory in 2010: Scarborough, North York, East York, York and Etobicoke.
On Monday, a man named Joe, carrying a sign that depicted Trump as a neon-wigged Cheeto, told me that he'd felt depressed at the first protest, the night after the election, thinking, "Look at all of these people who lost".
How can we send someone into the general election without thinking the weak position we are putting ourselves in?
Surely there must be some plot, some international conspiracy involved in his election, so the thinking goes, because being elected to the highest office in the land shouldn't be possible for a black man.
He also told The New York Times before the election that thinking about Trump winning the presidency was "like contemplating your own death".
He also said it was "folly" for the Liberal party to approach the election thinking there were no consequences for deposing a first term prime minister.
Harper had called in August for the election, thinking a longer campaign and a bigger Conservative Party budget would wear down the Liberals and the NDP.
In the aftermath of the capture of Saddam Hussein in mid-December, 2003, they apparently began to rethink the 2004 elections, perhaps thinking the election could turn on more than just the war in Iraq.
I just remember sitting there watching the election results thinking, why are they violently reacting to people who were voting?
It must be difficult for Missourians to digest the results of the 2012 election without thinking their reputation as a bellwether for presidential campaigns is over.
