What I find most exciting is how they're finding their catch phrases. Did you catch how often they said "the new energy economy"? We are all finding common purpose, and it looks like someone has come along and given it a name. Now we just sit back and watch the winds of change blow though.

You know, I think the timing of the election with the US race is mostly accidental. But I wouldn't put it past the Conservatives- they're extremely media and image savy from what I hear. And Harper has got a lot of control going on publicity-wise. What's more, I hear he's been messing with electoral districts.

Did anyone just watch the debates? So much better to watch live than the US ones. A frickin' kitchen table, cool! Yes, Palin/Biden is sure to have some funny or outrageous moments. But it's so easy to subdivide that event into little videos on yahoo.news that it's much better to watch it after.

Frankly, I want that fucking carbon tax shift. It's the safest, most effective, easiest way to bring this country into the 21st century and get some green manufacturing jobs and companies here. It's way simpler than the NDP plan. The Harper way, besides keeping us back economically, is also going to really embarass and shame us on the international stage when it comes to climate change and just keeping up with the other developed countries on renewable energy technology (coming soon to a United States near you..). Dion has the best plan and he's been backing it all this time. Needs to be way more pissed off. Someone just needs to poke him with a stick so he shows some passion, though- frankly, in the debates, I think Elizabeth May showed way more authority. I think she was second only to Harper (hate to say it). In the debate Layton actually disappointed me because he seemed to always attack with his sound bites instead of engaging or answering questions..

The only problem is, the Liberals have been disappointing in their back-biting and I'm sure a lot of people think they still need to be taught a lesson.

With the Green party diverting votes, we're gonna see NDP gains but no way a minority government. Not unless we catch Harper getting a blow job or something.. so I say, how about an NDP-Liberal coalition government? Coalition government hasn't happened since 1928, but now's the time.

I don't even go for the NDP and I want to see an NDP minority government.

I agree with you on Jack Layton! An NDP Minority Gov. is exactly what this country needs. Conservatives, Liberals and Socialists working together to find a common ground is like a dream come true for Democracy!

I used to go out with a woman who lived next door to them.

I'm voting NDP strictly because Layton's got some yellow fever! MY BOY! Represent!!

Americans are bull headed and greedy. How we will pole shift the pyridine from this 20th century thinking to the 21st is a big gap yet to cross. That is if one came make it out of being pummeled for being a "pussy", by everyone else here, in the process.

This is the only natural and logical outcome of decades of the Republican agenda and it seems to indicate that all of the negative things people say about the intelligence of Americans are correct. How else can you explain the fact that you guys keep falling for their scam, and the fact that Democrats are completely unable to construct a narrative about this that the American public can connect with?

Any way it goes down, it is the manifestation of the American Dream. Be creative and cultivate a marketing- and entrepreneurial-mindset and you'll be OK. Treat your 'job' like it's a right and you'll get squashed.

Well, I of course know squat about Canada politics, but I'm interested in your thought over the US financial whack-a-do?