The only choice that Martin had tonight was to try to hit the hail mary or land the knockout blow in order to reverse the fortunes of his campaign and save his party. After being attacked by three parties, Martin cam across as pretty insincere, and flustered, and his attempts to cast dispersions on the American's and the Conservatives fell pretty flat, Martin didn't land any major punches, and actually didn't land a lot of jabs, if your going to declare a winner, you'd have to look at Ducceppe (sp?) which is actually a big negative for the Liberals since the Bloc cast blame pretty widely on Liberal efforts in the province of Quebec.
I'm beginning to think that the Liberal's next move will be the smear ads and negativity and the Conservatives have done a good job of preparing the voters for that to happen. I think this is now the conservatives election to lose, and I have a feeling that they're smarter this time around and won't fall easily into the Liberal's hopes of saying or doing something stupid.
Martin didn't look like a Prime Minister tonight, he looked like a exhausted, stressed out beaten man, and that was not the message that the Lib's wanted to distribute.
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