With a lead in the polls less than a week before the election, Stephen Harper can’t afford any missteps. And yet yesterday’s message, intentionally or unintentionally, seems to have been that he’s not scary.
Which, of course, just leads voters to focus on the topic of his potential scariness.
Didn’t anyone ever tell him that the surest way to get people to think something of you is to make a point of denying it?
Sure enough, today’s polls show a stagnation in the Tory lead. And whatever Harper thinks, it ain’t over till the fat lady starts warbling. As I’ve said all along, don’t count out the Liberals just yet.