Well, that was fun.
Trudeau the clear winner IMO. If anyone actually watched this (or enough people at least see the highlights on the news later) I would expect the next polls to show the Liberals out in front - Mulcair did nothing to retain left of center voters.
Harper and Mulcair both lost ground tonight.
I still have a hard time seeing Trudeau as PM, and still think he'd be an irritating guy to have a beer with, but that was a solid performance that should bring a lot of people around.
The deficit thing is a tour de force in a debate like that. The other two are stuck explaining how they're going to do all these lofty things (or in Harper's case, refrain from doing any lofty things) while balancing the budget. Trudeau can just say "yeah, we're going to spend the money."
And only one personal attack the whole time. Go Canada!
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