There was a
poll recently that suggested this might be true of Harper (i.e. he might be able to get a majority):
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Asked who would make the best prime minister, exactly half of respondents in the poll of 1,003 Canadians chose Mr. Harper, followed by NDP leader Jack Layton at 31% and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion at 20%.
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This makes me a bit worried, but at the same time it should be somewhat expected. Harper has been a political shark over the last several months. He's been cornering the Liberals and has been getting them to make themselves look bad while making the Tories look good. All of this will be thrown back up into their faces, all because the Liberals didn't want an early election because "Canadians [weren't] ready for another election."
Dion has been weak despite his attempts to sound like a critic of Harper's agenda and related performance.
Unfortunately, I haven't had my nose in the news for a long time, so I can't comment much more beyond the general feel for things. All I can say is that Layton has been looking more like a leader than Dion and it's driving me nuts because it's the Liberals who normally stand a chance to take the Tories out of power, not the NDP. I can only hope the NDP wins more seats, but it's up to the Liberals to at least keep the Tories out of a majority. I'm not sure this is going to happen.
In the run-up to the election, I'll be sure to keep abreast of the goings on. I'll try to keep things alive in what we can make of a "Tilted Canadian Politics." I'm sure fresnelly and a few others wouldn't mind pitching in....