Will the federal Liberals lose three elections in a row? Maybe
Although some are ready to give Canada's political crown to Michael Ignatieff, a third Harper triumph is not far-fetched, regardless of the economic crisis.
TORONTO—Since Sir Wilfrid Laurier's election victory in 1896, the Liberal Party has lost three consecutive general elections just once. Those losses—in 1957, 1958, and 1962—were all at the hands John Diefenbaker and included the largest majority in federal political history.
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