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I think what ultimately did in Harper and the Conservatives was:
a) people didn't trust them - the Liberal ads took votes from both the NDP and the Conservatives. Better the devil you know.
b) Harper and his Conservatives, as much as they state otherwise, are still a regional western based party. Harper's comments over the weekend before the election when he fell back on the old Reform platitudes... "At last the west will be in the driver's seat" or something to that effect. That isn't going to win over the east.
The east is traditionally Centre/Centre Left in its politics and that isn't going to change.
The Conservatives need to have a policy convention (something they haven't had yet) and nail down just what their policy is... They created a vacuum in their social policy... fee vote isn't going to cut it. As they say Nature abhorrs a vacuum... this one was filled by the Liberal ads and the Conservative candidates themselves...
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