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It was a hard-fought campaign with Adrian Dix and the New Democrats heavily favoured from the start to form the provincial government. But after four weeks of province-wide campaigning, Christy Clark lived up to her nickname, The Comeback Kid.
Even as polls were showing an NDP win, Clark was confident that she drove home the message about her party’s stand on the economy and their party’s chief tactic was to argue against the NDP. The Liberals gained traction with that tack, and the striking lead the NDP enjoyed at the start of the campaign was whittled down in the last week of the campaign.
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New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix ran a populist campaign, appealing to voters’s desire for change after 12 years of Liberal rule. For weeks, reports said this was Dix election to lose since they remained the odds-on favourites to win at least the 43 seats needed to form a majority government.
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The indefatigable Clark maintained in the waning days that her Liberals could yet cause an upset.
“The momentum has been really good. My sense is that British Columbians are really focused on the economic questions that are there, and I think increasingly feeling a deep sense of concern about the NDP’s plan to grow government.”
~ with CP files
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