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Royce Koop - Week Six Results

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Bloc Quebecois

Duceppe has continued to play on the themes that have benefited him throughout the campaign with one exception: The jump in Conservative popularity in Quebec has persuaded Duceppe to turn his big guns from the Liberals to the Conservatives.

Conservative Party

Harper performed as well as could be expected in the second debate, avoiding any knock out punches from Martin while throwing several distracting shots of his own. The Conservatives played no small role in their own immunization against the Liberal attack ads which were released the day after the debates. The party featured ads that warned that the Liberals would go negative and, when the Liberals did go negative, released ads criticizing them for doing so. In response to the new Liberal ads, the CPC released a couple hard-hitting ads of their own which have not drawn any negative reactions from the media.

Harper has been riding his momentum through the entire second half of the campaign, especially benefiting from polls that place him within striking distance of a majority government. The party isn’t taking anything for granted, and has recently released new ads in B.C. targeting the NDP. The icing on the cake is polling in Quebec which shows that Harper, the Reform Party’s first policy chief, is polling twice as well as the Liberals.

Liberal Party

Some cosmic force is angry with the Liberals in this campaign. Martin performed well in the debate, but was hardly prime ministerial in comparison to Harper. The Liberal attack ads are somewhat crude, but there was little doubt that they would play well. Or else they would have, had one of the ads not been deemed inappropriate and pulled, provoking a week of media discussion and Martin excuse-making. One of Martin’s staffers was rebuked by Mike Duffy over the issue, adding to the impression of the Liberal campaign as a train wreck.

Martin has not revised his scripts to adapt to the idea that he is headed for defeat. He still talks about how his values differ from Harper’s. It didn’t work before and it’s not working now.

New Democratic Party

Layton received almost universal brick-bats for his performance in the debate, although he struck me as fairly eloquent. He appears to be shifting his focus to winnable regions and is running new ads in B.C. attacking both the Liberals and Conservatives.

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