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Originally Posted by Slava
I just think its a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. Sooner or later they have to vote down the government; they can't vote with them over and over because it weakens their campaign that eventually comes.
The AG report might still have some impact, but really people are of the mindset that none of them are any good, so in general that works in Harpers favour as the incumbent. No one seems to be strongly in favour of anything he plans to do, but just voting for the lesser of the evils sort of thing.
He might get a majority. I hope not. I like elections and have no issue with voting. It doesn't exhaust me to mark and "x".
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I do get what your saying, and Layton was smart enough to pick up that Ignatieff didn't show up for votes because he didn't want his record to show that he was agreeing with Harper all of the time. I'm sure Ignatieff didn't realize that it was the bad strategy that it was.
The AG report might have some teeth, but the stupidity of that is two fold. It was a first draft that was leaked to the media, and it sounds like it was substantially different from the second draft that the Conservatives got their hands on. Third of all, I think Harper played it well by agreeing that he would be willing to get the report released, even though the rules don't allow it, and Sheila Frasier if anything is a stickler for the rules. As of last night there is an investigation in her office about the leak, and she can't be too happy that the leaked document is being used in this campaign.
I hope that Harper gets a majority, to me the Liberal Party really needs its Kim Campbell moment where its forced to take a good hard look at itself and rebuild, because frankly, even with a decent campaign, I don't think the voters are all fired up about Ignatieff, and I think the senior leaders in the Liberal party spend too much time back stabbing each other, and not enough time on distinctive platform.
I like elections too, I think its clear that I'm a political animal, but even I'm saying that 4 elections in 7 years is not an efficient use of time and money.
On another note, it will be interesting to see what Ignatieff does after tonights debate. If he starts moving outside of his defended ridings, he's feeling good about how he did in the debate. If he starts going heavy into Ontario and defending the seats that he has, then he and his supporters don't feel good about his performances.