Reply #17: The other reason is the bizarre Conservative scare campaign with media backing to...

[JackRiddler]

declare coalitions, the very essence of democracy, into an apocalyptic threat to democracy. Apparently a one-party state with 38-percent support is democratic but a coalition with 55-percent support is either a dictatorship of minorities or the signal for anarchy and terror in the streets, ignorance is strength, war is peace, love is hate, etc.

There's been a last minute smear effort, the revelation that Layton may have been present at a massage parlor... when it was raided... 15 years ago,* though he wasn't arrested or named at the time. Some pretty lame stuff. Meanwhile Harper's wife is rumored to have left him and to be living in a hotel with a female Mountie. Anyway, this nonsense has had no effect.

* 15 years ago? That would have been BEFORE Clinton's blowjob!