Monday, April 27, 2009

A definite improvement

Having criticized Murray Mandryk last week for a column which essentially glossing over the "race" part of the NDP leadership race, I'll give him some credit for his more recent one arising out of last week's debate.

Which isn't to say that I entirely share his analysis. In some areas, Mandryk looks to have overlooked some interesting policy disagreements among the candidates. And in others, he looks to be minimizing some areas of agreement to fit a storyline: in particular, it seems to me that all of the candidates have spent a substantial amount of time talking about putting together a winning campaign in 2011, contrary to his attempt to divide the contenders into three renewal candidates and a 2011-focused Lingenfelter.

But it's definitely a plus to see at least a couple of the creative ideas from the leadership race getting some wider exposure. And hopefully by the time June rolls around, Mandryk will have found reason to be more interested in the contest than he sounds for the moment.

(h/t to Buckdog.)

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