Conservatives Move Into Tie With Liberals In Canada

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The Liberals always tend to fall in the polls in the first few days after the writ. I think Harper scored a coup by supporting cutting the federal sales tax, but the Liberals will undoubtably try to trumpet the state of the economy (it has been going strong for the past few years).

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What likelihood is there of some sort of Grand Coalition between Liberals and Conservatives, with Stephen Harper as the PM but with very limited power and influence, much like what happened in Germany after the recent election?  It's uncanny how many parallels there are between the two elections.   

I say very small, since the circumstances between Canada and Germany are different:

1. In Germany the Social Dems shut down the government. In Canada the opposition united to call the election.

2. Schroeder's government was unpopular but not seen to be corrupt. The reputation of the Liberals was flushed down the toilet time and time again.

3. The Libs and Tories are demonizing each other using negative campaigns. In Germany IIRC things were more civilized.

At this stage any final predictions are meaningless, though over the weekend I will (if I have time) list out swing seats.