There were thousands of Liberal voters who stayed home simply because of Dion and the green shift, I am pretty certain that this wont be the case with Ignatieff.
Ignatieff has a pretty good strategy of selling the line "I could have been Prime Minister, but chose not to because it was not in the national interest". I think voters will not be swayed by the argument that a vote for the Liberals is a vote for the separatists/socialists.
It is easy to say they could pick up a few seats in the rest of the country, but the only thing that seems certain is that they will lose seats in Quebec. The rest of the country is still up in the air. I think the conservatives will have a much tougher time with Ignatieff, especially now that he is constantly saying the word 'centrist' and 'moderate'.
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