Just to make clear... the NDP got more seats and higher % of the vote in 1988 than the Liberals got in May.While the Liberals had their worst election result in their history on May 2, they still did better then what the NDP did in 2008, or at almost any point in the party's history. What reason is their for hard core Liberals to move to the NDP? If the NDP can jump from fourth to second within a matter of weeks in April why should Liberals think the only way to beat the Conservatives is by voting NDP? Unless the NDP decide to reach out to Liberals across Canada why should they all just decide to give up on their party? Would people here have been willing to become Liberals if the NDP had finished in third behind the Liberals?
I know, that's why I said "or at almost any point in the party's history"