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The postmortem on the campaigns will be interesting. There could be a number of factors regarding the NDP surge. It's to be noted that most of it is in Quebec, but sure enough many of those could be youth voters.
The other thing is the difference in campaign styles. The Tories started out with character assassination and fearmongering, then shifted into scummy closed-door tactics regarding their rallies. Now they're just repeating taglines and are hoping to coast to a majority based on Canadians' lost faith in the Liberals.
The NDP have been doing things differently. Layton ranks high in the leadership polls and it shows. He's speaking directly to Canadians and he's laying out what he's going to do to fix problems that matter to many of us. What's more, he's looking to fix them now, not in 2014 or later. Harper's promises are postdated, and it would seem that Ignateiff's promises are increasingly irrelevant.
There's just so much you can speculate about this. However, it will only come to fruition on May 2nd, so let's just wait and see.
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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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