I'm back from my self-administered cone of silence. And look what's happened while I was away; another Election!

You will notice that this site has removed it's articles from the last campaign. This time around I think I'll just point to other sites that will give a prospective voter some good background. My initial hunch is that the campaign will be very low key until the week after the New Year. A smart strategist may introduce some key discussion points for family and party conversation in mid-December, but I wouldn't expect the real scrapping to begin until after the Holidays. There is a possibility that the Liberals will have to go very negative in this campaign in order to hang on to what they have.

Best candidate-on-the-go site that I have seen to this point is Garth Turner's The Turner Report. It's fact filled, the comments look real and the response is pragmatic. Garth is a savvy journalist and a former cabinet minister. Experience and frankness in the quantities he delivers bode well for the team that could be forming the next government.