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Originally Posted by MarchHare
What's the reasoning behind the NDP's recent polling gains? Have they made some significant new policy announcement that I missed?
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Their gains are the Liberal's loss.
frankly the Libs and Ignatieff have run a disastrous campaign, they couldn't make the contempt of parliament and conservative conduct stick. They came out with a really dumb left of center platform at a time when people are worried less about massive social programs and more about jobs.
Ignatieff was not good in the debates, he underestimated how Harper would deal with his attacks.
Ignatieff has looked stupid lately, first with the no engines in the F-35 price statement which killed his ability to attack the program. His exposure of his role in Iraq and his denial which I don't think anyone believes.
He ran a really negative campaign and was clumsy in doing it.
Then the coalition thing came up again with Ignatieff saying basically "Let me be clear a coalition is off the table, but we will likely topple the government and then form a loose coalition".
I think the biggest momentum roll is coming from the feeling that people might have been ok with an election, but the Liberals have looked so bad and unprepared that the sentiment has changed to "What the frack did they want an election for", which combined with the sense that Ignatieff just did this because he's power hungry.
The Liberal party has to be extremely upset with Ignatieff and with the party strategists. They are heading for a terrible beatdown. If that happens I would expect that Ignatieff resigns during his concession speech.