Landslide in Nova Scotia.... for Darrell Dexter...

John Savage was the last Premier of Nova Scotia to win a landslide election when he defeated Donald Cameron with 40 (liberal) seats in the 52 seat legislature with 49% of the popular vote.... the Tories got 9 seats and the NDP only 3 seats.... well things change and it appears from CRA's recent poll that in this current election Darrell Dexter's NDP are going to garner 50% of the popular vote which will give them a "landslide" majority.... the Liberals will probably run 2nd and the ruling Tories a distant third... Dexter had an awkward moment today when the NDP campaign had to acknowledge that they will be returning a $45,000.00 donation from the building trades union that violates the election act but I doubt this will have much impact at this point in time... the NDP has certainly made significant gains in Nova Scotia since back in Alexa McDonough's and John Holmes' era... but hard work always pays off (and a number of screw ups from the ruling Tories don't hurt) and it appears to have here...