E-Day plus 365

A year ago today, Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals won a second majority, and lost 31 seats. Last week, a Mustel Group poll had the Liberals at 54% to 37% for the NDP.

A 13 point lead despite Olympic cost overruns, Kevin Falcon's freeway bullying, cutting funding to emergency rooms, and still not addressing classroom sizes could mean a few things. One thing is that the polite, pick-your-spots approach the NDP has taken in the legislature isn't resonating with the voters. Another thing is that after the Liberals handed out signing bonus to public sector workers, the labour movement isn't mobilized to take on these kind of issues as they did in the Campbell's first term.

Or, it could be that no one's paying attention and it's getting close to summer, making this the useless kind of double-digit lead. The beaches may open this weekend, but the unfortunately for the Liberals, the polls don't for another three years.

Of course, the Basi-Virk trial has to open sometime...