I wrote this the day the writ was dropped. "With the later looking more likely and Ignatieff looking set to join Dion, John Turner and Paul Martin as the fourth rider of the Liberal apocalypse, North Vancouver Liberal candidate Taleeb Normohamed could fair rather badly indeed."
Alas I was right. Iggy was the fourth rider. The party is dead.
Many said that the Liberals ran a good campaign. I thought that they ran a horrible campaign, but I let such talk blinker my expectations somewhat. Iggy and the Liberal brain trust will be savaged in the months to come and rightly so. All that be said in his favour is that he ran a better campaign than Dion.
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Why are you so surprised? We've been waiting for Ignatieff to define himself beyond being little more than a scandal-monger for what... four years now?
I am not that surprised.
I picked them for 46 seats. I was suprised they were elected in only 25 and leading in 8 more.
Koby, the party's not dead. As Bob Rae pointed out, he's seen parties go from third to first. We can come back. The money is there -- the Liberals rised $4 million in one month. There were more volunteers than ever this year. The key that was missing was leadership. The NDP was nothing without Layton at the helm. We can come back as long as we work at it, and we find the right leader.
The party is not dead. In fact, the Conservative majority gives the Liberals a chance for a REAL rebuild, not a quick one that would fail again.
Check and mate!!
9% in Alberta
12% BC
8% Sask almost a half in one riding!
13% in Quebec
16% in Man
Liberal highlights: Kevin Lamoureux and Trudeau
Liberal low lights the other 306.
Put a fork in them they are done.
Check and mate!!
Hardly.
The Conservatives are going to have to deal with a housing crash, which is predictd to be over the horizon. Part of his has to do with changes to mortgage rules in 2006, which was like adding gasoline to a bonfire. Good luck with that.
The NDP has a number of MPs who were placeholder candidates. The woman who went on vacation to Las Vegas and who apparently speak no French in a francophone riding -- she got election. Question period should be very interesting. The Conservatives will eat them alive unless they get to speed. Good luck with that too.
I forgot Valeriote.
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I also have no faith in Liberal brass. This is the 4th terrible campaign in row they have run.
They do not know how to attack.
They do not know how to attack.
Oh definitely. Heads have to roll.
There were a number of things in the campaign they should have hit back on. When Harper was talking about the fact that Ontarios turned to the Conservatives after the NDP, why not remind people what life was like under Mike Harris, and whom they turned to after that mess.
@Koby - Ted Hsu in Kingston? If I'd put money on the Liberals losing a seat this go round, it would have been Kingston & The Islands. Winning as a new candidate in an election where your party gets hammered takes some doing.
"Ted Hsu in Kingston"
oh yeah.
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