One last thing before I change my focus to the US election :-) [View all]

If the campaign managers I worked with -- long-time NDP strategists, according to their own promos -- are at all representative of the NDP's collection of CMs, then the NDP is being seriously damaged by mediocrity and possibly flat-out incompetence.

In another thread (http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1087&pid=5263), the following comment was made:

It looks like the Federal NDP campaign team is scheming to give the victory to the Conservatives in the same manner as what the British Columbia NDP team did for the Liberals.

I honestly don't think anyone was scheming here, neither locally nor federally. But just based on my experience in my local campaign and watching some of the bizarreness of the federal campaign, I think the Peter Principle is in full play with NDP campaign staff. Locally -- disorganization, inefficiency, constantly reacting rather than planning ahead, insistence on doing things "the way we did it the last time," and -- god help me -- paper, paper, paper. It was as if the campaign manager had never heard of computers. This last fact resulted in information constantly being misplaced, causing staff to have to repeat -- sometimes multiple times -- the same work. Totally blinkered.

Toward the end, I couldn't help but wonder if these people were somehow descended from the Golgafrincham B Ark....