It's shaping up to be something of a barnburner in the Great White North. I wonder if PM Martin made a fundamental mistake by not bowing out and letting someone else lead the party to the polls.

"Prime Minister Harper" just doesn't sound right to my ear, though it'll be interesting to see a PM from my hometown. I think if he's going to take up residence at 24 Sussex [the Canadian equivilent of 10 Downing], a minority situation is the best thing. I don't know if I'd call Harper a neocon, but perhaps it'd be better to offer him only one reign instead of both. That way there will always be a Liberal with a baseball bat right behind him.