Bonnie's big haul 2.0

Polls, trolls and bankrolls, oh my!

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Everyone’s coming for BONNIE CROMBIE — and for good reason. Barring some wacky turn of Liberal leadership events, “she pretty much can’t be stopped at this point,” said one Grit insider. But first: New Democrats are raking it in big time.

BY THE NUMBERS I — Yesterday, this newsletter had the jump on the political parties’ fundraising standings for Q3. Today, the NDP wants you to know their arsenal contains loads more cash than the $315,718 that’s posted to Elections Ontario: $940,831 to be exact, from a staggering 21,925 supporters giving an average of $43.

“That’s people power,” said one party source.

A banner quarter: It seems the NDP has capitalized on the PCs summer of discontent, the Greenbelt affair, and the pair of byelections, which allowed parties to raise twice more than the annual individual limit of $3,350. It’s the Official Oppo’s “best non-election year Q3 ever, and our second-best Q3 of all time (beat only by 2014, which was an election year),” said the s…