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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I think the biggest mistake the NDP made was believing in their own hype from the last election and not realizing that a lot of the NDP voters the last time around were Liberal voters basically protesting their own party. The Bloc made the same mistake before.
They did very little to keep that support since the last election, although I am not sure what they really could have done to keep it either without abandoning their core. What we saw was more a regression to historical support than a loss. I don't think it is completely fair to make Mulcair wear this, although the optics will probably make it that they need a new leader before the next election.
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Sort of. They were still riding high in Quebec prior to the Niqab debate. The problem was they didn't do anything to separate themselves enough from the Liberals or Conservatives to have something to fall back on when they lost support for that.