[CaptainCrunch]

No thanks to a coalition government. When I vote I vote based on a parties platforms and policy statement. For a government to maintain a coalition they're going to have to trade off on their election promises to keep the coalition together. In essence remaining in power and maintaining a coalition will become more important then your party platform.

If the Liberal's want to talk coalition then make it part of their party platform. During any election campaign make it a policy statement that if they lose they will look to form a coalition which will give Jack Layton a seat of power as deputy PM, that they will carry out several of the NDP election platforms and see what happens.

To me, its unlikely that we're going to see an election for a long time anyways. Ignatieff has done a terrible job of running the Liberal's and has managed to do as bad of a job of driving the Liberal's into the ground as successive Conservative Party leaders did in the days of darkness. You can already see Bob Rae pulling out the knives, and I have my doubts that Ignatieff will still be party leader by the time the next election comes around.

The Liberal's need to have Bob Rae take over leadership of the Liberals as it will ring the final death knell for a party that badly needs to reinvent itself and find a strong leader that capable of reaching the average Canadian.

Ignatieff is definitely not that guy, nor is Bob Rae.

I also think that the threat of the Liberal's and NDP threatening to form a coalition if there is a minority government will drive more voters away from the Left and away from the polls.