[CaptainCrunch]

To me, nobody landed a knockout punch today, I don't think that Dion really helped himself and he was challenged pretty hard by Harper on the green shift numbers and he had no answer for it. The wheat board question was a good one, and Harper defended that well by saying they wanted a fair wheat board.

Layton was good and passionate, however his economic promises, and his attack on corporate tax cuts probably didn't help him much right now.

May I thought was good on the environment and completely out of touch on everything else. Her proposals on crime and afghanistan were ridiculous and out of touch, her income splitting suggestion left her wide open for a strong right to the jaw from Harper and I was surprised that he went easy on that.

Duceppe was very good today and help his own, like I mentioned, I hate his politics, but I think he is the most sincere and honest of the candidates and that really came across today.

I think Harper did what he had to do, he was a lot more force full, and he did a better job of going after his opponents, but the format of this debate is inherantly unfair to the Prime Mininster, but overall I was happy with Harper who to me came across as well prepared for this debate and tried to stick to his record, and the fact that Canada is inherantly more economically buttressed then the states.

I would give the win to Harper, but I don't think that we're going to see significant vote shifting, except maybe Dion loses Eastern Canadian votes to the NDP, and the NDP probably loses any good will that they had gained in the West as he pulled the evil Oil Company argument out foolishly.