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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
He really wasn't going to steal votes from the Cons as Con voters are really not interested in NDP policies.
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Oddly I know a good number of folk (self-defined populists all) that have alternated between the two. And Layton does have to attack the Conservatives... if he doesn't then his party will not be seen as a credible opposition to the Tories, and he'll be seen as operating contrary to the preferred outcome of his core supporters, and from a historical perspective his opportunities for leverage are likely greater with a minority Liberal Government then with a minority Conservative government. Opposing the government (as all opposition parties should do) doesn't present the risk that his supporters will abandon him enmasse.