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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Harper gambled and made a huge mistake. What was the point of his election timing? To beat the U.S. elections? Why did he move forward his own date?
He could have rode out the financial crisis and proved the government was holding steady (he couldn't have forseen it popping up in the middle of his campaign of course)...had a few more lax years of a lame Dion as the opposition leader, etc...all doing nothing but blowing more millions of dollars on an election that will result in the same minority and government structure we had in the first place. Now the cons might even lose seats and the liberals will be resurgent if Dion is ousted.
Stupid!
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Tough to say in hindsight. We'll never really know.
It's also possible that this is as good as it gets for him.