Why Do I keep Quoting Paul Wells?

Is it just me or has two weeks of good campaigning completely transformed Stephane Dion. I swear, every day I hear a new interview or see a video clip, his English has improved and he’s clearer and more forceful.

Not one to make hasty comparisons, but didn’t Stephen Harper experience a similar transformation in the 2004 election?

Here’s the latest clip (via Paul Wells)

Also, Read this post by Wells on the new Stephane Dion against the not so new Stephen Harper. I particularly like these lines:

The emerging and interesting theme of this campaign is that Stephen Harper, who some bloggers were calling Everyman as recently as Saturday, and who had all the gleaming apparatus of modern electioneering — legions of brain-in-a-jar strategic geniuses, a fundraising armada, gleaming suburban election suites, purpose-built teevee studios, the Legendary Guy Giorno Himself! as chief of staff (fun question: could anyone find Guy Giorno with teams of bloodhounds this week?) — and who had no stronger claim to legitimacy than his preoccupation for the concerns of ordinary folks and his willingness to play nice with the provinces — has managed to let himself get pushed off those dimes by Snooty French-Educated Clarity-Bill Guy.

And this bit at the end:

But let it be noted that as this campaign entered its home stretch, the accidental leader peddling a tax increase is getting crowds to their feet in North Bay and Bay Street, while the crack team assembled by the guy who’s spent the last three years playing three-dimensional Vulcan chess was reduced to crowd counts.