CANADA: Personality may trump issues in election fight

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  • Parliamentary shifts
  • Balance of power
  • Why Harper acted
  • Polling data
  • Conservative advantages
  • Harper's Quebec strategy
  • Ontario battleground
  • Leadership and strategy
  • Conservative 'reliability'
  • Harper's leadership
  • Issue emphasis
  • Quebec nationalists
  • Liberal issue politics
  • Layton's personal appeal
  • Bloc barriers
  • No dominant issue
  • Environment
  • Economy and fiscal policy
  • Federalism

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