How times have changed
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | 07:45 AM ET
From David Cochrane, travelling with the PC campaign:
The first hours of the Tory campaign were spent in Corner Brook, where Danny Williams and Tom Marshall are running unopposed.
When I first started covering politics, Corner Brook was the heart of Liberal power. In fact, the west coast was Big Red country. Brian Tobin. Paul Dicks. Chuck Furey. Kevin Aylward. All Liberals, all prominent, all based on the west coast.
Now, Corner Brook has become the political capital of the Conservative party. The premier's seat is here. So is the finance minister's. The campaign has started and the Liberals can't find a solid candidate to run in either Humber West or Humber East.
The only red signs you see on lawns belong to Re/Max. And even those have some blue on it.
This is perhaps the most visible sign of the imbalance of this campaign. When the official opposition can't find a candidate to run in the province's second city - in what used to be their power-base just two elections ago - it is a bad sign for their prospects. It also shows just how much things have changed.
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