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Jonathan Malloy - Report Card ResultsWeek Five (June 20 to June 27) Grades
Bloc QuebecoisThe Bloc has run a strong campaign, although as I've repeatedly said, the challenge was low. By presenting themselves as the clean and pure opposition to the Liberals, they have come back from the dead and stymied any chance of even a small Conservative or New Democrat bridgehead. After more than a decade, they are finally what they were created for in the first place - the kingmakers in the House of Commons. Conservative PartyThe Conservatives have certainly done better than they anticipated a few months ago. Is this due to their own effectiveness? Not really. The Conservative ads are bland and I suspect ineffective. The party platform is a dog's breakfast. But the leader runs a generally tight ship; with 308 candidates it's not surprising that some have gone a bit off-message. Overall, the campaign has done well to adapt to the incredible Liberal free-fall. Unlike their predecessors, these guys seem to know what they're doing. Liberal PartyObviously if we could go back before the writ was dropped, the Liberals would score F for Failure. And with their lack of direction in the first half of the campaign, they can never score an A. But the relentless negative advertising against Stephen Harper has worked as intended, and the last two weeks have been strong, hard campaigning as only the Liberal Party of Canada can do. So let's give them a B- overall. But what happens to B- students? They usually just fade away. New Democratic PartyPity the NDP. They certainly gave it all they could. Big ads. The leader everywhere, all the time. A platform that we'll charitably call "pragmatic" - something for everyone. The hope of being the parliamentary kingmaker. Once again it seems that there's something bigger wrong with the NDP, no matter how well they campaign. But what is the solution? Will they ever discover it? Past Political Party Grades
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| Week | Bloc Quebecois | Conservative Party | Liberal Party | New Democratic Party |
| One | B+ |
B |
C+ |
A- |
| Two | B+ | B+ | D | C |
| Three | A- | B+ | C+ | B- |
| Four | C- | C+ | B+ | C+ |
| Five | A- | B+ | B- | B |
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