Well, I was wrong, but then again, so were most of the people I know and trust and respect, and all of this country's major polling firms, so I don't feel too bad. So here are some likely irrational, incoherent, emotion-based first thoughts on what happened tonight:
-We are headed for major national unity problems. The West is going to be FURIOUS about this. Preston Manning said as much on Global TV tonight.
-Obviously, the fact that the Conservatives had absolutely no momentum for the past 10 days had a major impact. On Saturday I wrote: "I've had the sense in the last few days that undecideds are increasingly breaking Liberal." Ever since Harper publicly mused about a majority, which was followed by the child porn gaffe, which was followed by various other problems, culminating with Randy White's anti-Charter comments on the weekend, a lot of available votes were driven away.
-I think we will see that the women vote killed the Tories. They were scared by the Grits' fearmongering.
-The Conservatives failed to take off the gloves when they needed to. Where was the ad with the spinning Paul Martin morphing into Dalton McGuinty? The cookie jar didn't cut it. Too much Mr. Nice Guy.
I'm dead. More tomorrow.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:53 AM
