On last gasps

I'm not sure whether the Bloc is sitting on numbers that look far worse than the polling that's been made public, sees a little more truth than it's prepared to deal with in the NDP's critique of it, or simply figures the rest of the campaign isn't going to go well. But can Gilles Duceppe's plea to federalist voters in the early stages of the election campaign be seen as anything but a sign of desperation? And isn't it entirely likely that Duceppe will end up losing far more support by telling separatists that his party is irrelevant than he can possibly gain by begging for strategic votes from federalists?