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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Anyone get a feeling that Iggy is bored of being the leader of the opposition?
If he loses the next election what are the chances that he heads back to Harvard? I'd say they're pretty good.
He's done a terrible job of inspiring any kind of confidence in himself as a leader.
He's already been hit hard in the polls, look for his fund raising efforts to start drying up if he continues on this path.
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I was listening to Chuck Adler (god, he's an annoying c-word, but there's nothing else on in the afternoon) the other day and he was saying something similar to this. He basically suggested that Ignatieff doesn't want to be the leader anymore (and probably kinda wants out altogether), so by forcing an election, he's in a win-win situation for himself, and to hell with the Liberal party.
The two ways he wins are that if he somehow wins the election, he's PM. If he loses, an understandable reaction is to step down as leader.
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Originally Posted by Stranger
Jack's saving his own skin. He knows he will lose a large number of seats and will never be more influencial than he is now.
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I'm no political tactician, but I think that Layton is doing himself more harm than good. From what I've seen in my life, NDP supporters are most likely to be vehemently anti-conservative. So by propping up the Cons, he's probably losing more and more votes to the Libs.