THIS IS IT

I don't know about you but I'm on pins and needles. This is the ballgame, this third ballot. There are over a thousand votes freed up by the second ballot departures of Kennedy and Dryden. The question is whether Dion can overcome that gap with Rae, and whether Rae can grow by just enough to withstand the surge to Dion that is coming. If he can't Stephane Dion will end up leader of the Liberal party on the fourth ballot.

Ignatieff is stuck there with his block of votes, he isn't going anywhere---- except home after the final balloting is over. They put up poll numbers that suggest so many people in the convention hall just don't want Ignatieff. Anyway, here we go.