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Sheila Copps: What is that smell?
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| Last Edited | User 13 Jan 06, 2006 06:41pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Visual clues are important in passing the political smell test. Turn off the sound on your television and just watch the body language of the Prime Minister. Paul Martin looks like a man who has been hit by a Mack truck. You can smell fear emanating from every pore of his body.
Contrast that to Stephen Harper. The man appears relaxed, focused and positively prime ministerial. Gone are the steely squints of the last campaign that left people feeling there was something really scary behind those baby blues. They have been replaced with the touch, feel and yes, even the smell of victory.
The "sweet smell of success" permeates a campaign. Larger numbers of people come out to winners' rallies, the sense of momentum is literally palpable. When things are going badly, leaders stick to small, scripted photo-ops, where nothing can go wrong. But even Martin's photo-ops have a certain smell of defeat. Campaigning with her leader in an Ottawa bagel shop on Monday, candidate Lee Farnworth joked that she and Martin might be able to get jobs there after the election. |
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