Stephen Harper's persistant talk of forcing an election at the wrong time was threatening to erase him from the political scene if he wasn't careful.
Polls continued to indicate continued support for Paul Martin's Liberals despite the damning testimony of Liberal Party corruption revealed in the Gomery Inquiry.
With the hearings long over and Judge Gomery now months into his assessment of the testimonies, the public seemed to have moved on accepting that the misdeeds had little to do with the current Liberal machine running the country.
