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Originally Posted by automaton 3
This. The Liberals have pretty much abandoned the center with respect to financial matters. Not sure what their strategy is there, as I would think they stand to gain more voters in the middle vs. trying to siphon off support from the NDP.
I would guess they are banking on centrist Liberal voters will hold their noses, hope for the best and continue to vote Liberal. The danger being if they become too disenfranchised, they might just stay home and sit this one out. Will be interesting to see how that strategy plays out.
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If I had a guess, the only way that the Senior Liberal's would continue to support Ignatieff is if he let Bob Rae create the platform.
Just looking back on Ignatieff pre Liberal Party leader there's no way he'd be onboard with this platform at all.
I'm sure that this platform was built to be completely opposite of the Cons platform which is fine, but I also think it was designed to siphon votes from the Dippers. The problem is that Layton I think has run a stronger campaign then Ignatieff.