Campaign 2008 sounds like: King’s 1926, Pearson’s 1965, or Trudeau’s 1974 election?

Historian Jack Granatstein says with one party on the central right and four parties on the left it's 'unusual,' possibly unprecedented.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper appears to be combining some successful lessons from the Diefenbaker, Trudeau and Pearson minority-to-majority election-winning campaigns in an effort to also win a bigger mandate, says author and political historian John Duffy.

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