Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Leadership 2012 - Robert Chisholm Ends His Campaign

As might have been clear from my most recent candidate rankings, Robert Chisholm's odds of winning the NDP leadership have seemed limited for some time. But Chisholm's announcement that he's ending his campaign will nonetheless have a couple of important consequences for the remaining candidates.

Most obviously, Chisholm's exit leaves an opening for the remaining candidates to win over Atlantic establishment support. And it's an open question whether that will end up directed more toward Martin Singh as the remaining local candidate, or other front-runners as they add pieces to their existing campaign organization.

But perhaps more interestingly, there's also the question of what will happen to Chisholm's ideas page - which has served as the gold standard for user interactivity in the leadership campaign so far. It will be up to Chisholm to decide whether to maintain and expand that portion of his site from here on in - but I'd hope that we'll see either Chisholm's version or another candidate's equivalent develop as a magnet for policy discussion as the race develops.

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