..leadership candidates for the liberal Party that is.
Rae to run for Liberal leadership
That makes Rae and Dominic Leblanc the only official 2 candidates for the Liberal leadership so far. Apparently, the Globe and Mail story today that claimed Rae had told friends he was thinking of NOT running probably tipped his hand.
UPDATE: Just [...]

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One of the odd quirks about the US presidential race is that a retiring incumbent President - or even a losing one in an election campaign - still sits as president for 3 months between the November election and the January inauguration of the next President. That allows the outgoing administration to attempt to do [...]

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I suppose I should comment on the new Harper Cabinet that was sworn in today. My first impressions are this:
The good points of this shuffle - more women in Cabinet. As an aside, you kind of had the feeling that Lisa Raitt would get rewarded by Harper for removing the thorn in his side Garth [...]

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A blogpost I did over at Liberal 308, which I’ve cross-posted to my blog.
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This is a very timely op-ed over at CNN about how Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean’s “50 state strategy” plan was attacked by some of the the Democratic strategists and  politicians - as was Obama’s decision to adapt it for his presidential [...]

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That would be my answer to James Bowie, who asked today whether the new Liberal leader should be picked based partly on long–standing Liberal Party tradition to alternate leaders between a francophone and anglophone leader.
Personally, my choice for a leader will be the one I feel is most qualified and has the best ideas and [...]

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The former Liberal premier of New Brunswick, Frank McKenna, has announced he will not be running for the Liberal leadership.   I’ve stated a couple of times I’d remain neutral in this race (for now), but I’ll say this: you can’t argue with his success as premier, but for myself anyhow, Mr. Mckenna was a bit [...]

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…but it’s getting close to be over for McCain/Palin and the Republicans. Take a look at the Pollster.com map from this AM, and note the “Strong Obama” states Electoral vote to the right of the 306 current estimated votes for Obama:

You’ll note it says 272, which is 2 more then Obama/Biden need to clinch the [...]

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Scary thought, isn’t it? Here’s a website called Palin As President that puts those thoughts into a visual presentation Very well done… and not far off the truth.
(H/T to C.A., a Liberal acquaintance of mine for finding that website).

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A suggestion was made over at the Liberal 308 Facebook group that perhaps a website might be in order - not only to help spread the word, but to be usable for those folks reluctant to use Facebook. So, one of our Facebook group members, Clara Chang, took some initiative and created one.
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With so little time left in the US Presidential Race, you know things aren’t going well for your campaign when an analyst says this:
Obama, at least, does not look to be competitive in South Dakota or Arkansas.
Ouch. Here’s an even bigger ouch for Mccain:
It will be very difficult for Obama to win more than [...]

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