I wonder if there might be a swing back to the BC Conservatives in the last week of the race, given that a BC Lib defeat now appears to be a virtual certainty and that, therefore the "if you're a 'free enterpriser', you HAVE to vote BC Liberal to kick the socialist barbarians back outside the gates" argument seems to be a moot point?That realization was a major reason why the Socred vote collapsed into third place in '91, after all.
I'm wondering if there's an opening for Conservatives to pick up right-wing support by capitalizing on how tarnished the Liberal brand is. I kind of expected (either now or over the long term) that the Conservative brand would take off for that reason. That would also help with association to the brand of the federal Conservatives, who have a large amount of support in BC.