PMO’s like a permanent campaign machine, says political observer

And Ottawa pollster Nik Nanos says Tories' ad ventures into uncharted territory and its portrayal of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a head of state represents an evolution.

The volley of Conservative attack ads that touched off an ad war with the Liberal Party showed how the Prime Minister's Office has grown into a permanent campaign machine with the chief purpose of getting "the Prime Minister and his party re-elected," says a leading political scientist.

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