Well, there's another problem here, Hilo. A lot of people hate the Liberals over various past gripes and would much rather vote NDP. A lot of other people are fed up with the NDP and would rather vote Green.

Now...all those people share one thing in common: they won't vote for the Conservatives.

But how do you get NDP supporters or Green Supporters to vote Liberal if they like the NDP or the Green Party better?

And why would they?

The only conceivable solution I can see is for the NDP and the Greens and the Liberals to form a single party....but they won't do that.

So it ain't gonna happen.

The only other conceivable solution I can see is that the Conservatives will finally create so much damage that their support among their 40% of the people will be badly eroded and then they'll finally get voted out.

That will take awhile.