The last thing the federal NDP needs would be to go into a federal election in Spring 2010 saddled with a hated NDP provincial government in BC and watch the number of NDP MPs from BC drop from 9 to 2 or 3. Better to let Campbell become the most hated man in BC and let the Liberals become the lightning rod for the intense anger we will see over the coming year.
Easy for you to say from downtown Toronto. Those of us who actually live here and are directly affected by this government see things slightly differently, and I, for one, do not want another four years of Campbell. Frankly, I don't give a good god-damn whether it would or wouldn't be good for Layton and the federal party, because who sits in the Premier's chair in Victoria has a hell of a lot more impact on me than whether there are 3 more MPs on the fourth-party benches in Ottawa.