The R Rated Blogger

Really good piece from Macleans on why the underdog Stephane Dion won. He was the least inoffensive candidate and the one with the least amount of enemies.

Dion was the Liberal nobody could object to. Not his past as the father of the Clarity Act. Not his campaign's borderline obsessive focus on the environment - an issue that all Liberals agree on, just to varying degrees. Not his easygoing, almost deferential manner. So in short order, he became the candidate you went to when you wanted to vote against someone else, or when you wanted someone who wouldn't radically mess with the status quo.