Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, stopped in Brockville as part of her whistle-stop tour across Canada. Because of this, the Greens have scored their third straight front page article in the Saturday edition of the Recorder and Times.

 Two articles: ‘May touts tax cuts as part of carbon plan‘ and ‘He’s the campaign manager, but he won’t be casting ballot‘ were in the paper today.

 The Leeds-Grenville Liberals opened their campaign office today with former deputy prime minister John Manley.

 The NDP and the Conservatives remain relatively quiet during the campaign. Gord is playing it safe during the debates and Steve is up to the same old stuff replacing Jokes with substance (which works).

Going to challenge the recent prediction made by DemocraticSPACE in Leeds-Grenville. The NDP will not hold on to their previous 15% and will likely finish around 11-13%. Although Marjory and the local Liberals are running a weak campaign, they DO have a base and will likely capture around 20% of the vote. The Conservatives are running a very ‘conservative’ campaign. Are not paying much attention to the sign war (no more then the liberals and Greens), not responding to critisism at the debates, and have not sent out a mass mailout yet (unlike last go round). Look for them to get about 55-56%. The Greens are running a much stronger campaign, and traditionally poll ahead of the party. I suspect the Greens will keep their previous third place finish in 2007, and the Green Party leader will be the only party leader to visit the riding this time around. look to the Greens to capture 11 to 14%.