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Woah, yerself, Martian.
Your parliamentary history will tell you that more than half the electorate switched parties between the 1988 and 1993 elections. I know the situations are entirely different now, but I would hardly call a Liberal minority a pipe dream.
How do you go from "elections are won and lost on the campaign trail all the time" to "there will be a bit of a shuffle, but I'm not anticipating big changes here. A Liberal minority? It's a pipe dream"?
I know it's a longshot, but we don't' even know what the "election question" is going to be. I'm guessing it's not going to be the coalition. Everyday Canadians won't care enough about that.
Time will tell where the battles will be fought. It will probably be about the deficit and the economy. But who knows?
But anyway, my point is that Iggy could surprise us and Harper could shoot himself in the foot. We're still over a month away from the polls.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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