You know, I was thinking back to the 1995 election: a Premier at peace with his resignation to inevitable defeat; an anointed frontrunner who turned out too prickly, unlikeable, and smearable for her own good; and a victor with a warm, reassuring, smooth and positive aura about him, even though he ran to the hard right of where his party previously stood.
Imagine, in 2011, if those figures were, respectively, McGuinty, Hudak, and Horwath.