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Originally Posted by Slava
I just wanted to say that this poll (along with others that have come out recently), and the ridiculous press conference this morning for Harper has to be somewhat infuriating to the CPC faithful? I don't even mean from a policy/partisan standpoint either. I just mean from the perspective that the majority had to have been within their grasp early on in the campaign, but a terrible strategy in terms of the actual campaign is going to see that disappear, and even worse reduce their number of seats.
I know its easy to look at the Liberals and say what a disaster for them (and it ain't pretty!), but this sure doesn't look like its time for the CPC to gloat either. What a train wreck.
The other thing that seems to be showing as more likely is Elizabeth May winning her seat against Lunn.
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I really don't know what they could have done from a campaigning persepctive. When you're the incumbent government, a re-election campaign is really an organized plane crash. In a vacuum of none of the other parties making mistakes, all you can do is shore up your vote and hope you don't lose too many supporters.
They induced Ignatieff into making huge mistakes, but the methods of tarring and feathering him pissed people off enough to seek alternative places to park their vote. Really the CPC are capped at 40%, and they need to manipulate ways to get all of that 40% and in the right places to win a majority. A daunting task non the less.