The election's new unchartered course

The election now has just over two weeks to run and the whole scenario has changed.
The first tv debate was a game-changer in a very seismic way. Now we see the polls taken after the debate are placing the Lib Dems at the top or second. People seem to be seeing them in a new light.

I have some comparisons:
Barack Obama was a US Senator for only about 3 years when he made his run for President. He was really 'totally unknown'. The in the primaries he started to win and win and go ahead of the favourite, Hilary Clinton.
Obama came under attack for his former associations, especially the pastor in Chicago whom he was close to and who had become very radical and some would say totally crazy.
Obama overcame these setbacks, won the nomination and then beat the war hero-prisoner and 30 year Senator McCain.

Nick Clegg has been an MEP and now an MP in London. He has been around, but most electors do not know of him or about him. He has been leader for less than 2 years or three and has not made a big impact.
He gets 2 questions a week at PMQs and in these he does well, arguing against the govt and also the Tories, but is usually shouted down by noisy govt backbenchers. But he often hits the target and the PM tries just to fob him off.
He is now on equal terms in the TV debate, getting equal time with Cameron and the PM. And he showed he is no pushover, no idiot but rather very good on TV with a good, handsome and intelligent appeal.
Voters have new seen him up close and will get 180 more minutes in the next 2 debates.

A good majority of Americans elected Obama and not McCain, a new man over an old man. A young man with no real govt experience over an old man who had been in the Senate for 30 years. Why did Americans choose the young untried man?

Here the untried has now lept up in the polls and the Tories and Labour parties don't like it. They are very angry that British people may now not vote for them, and turn to the Lib Dems.

There is change underway and that's what the Tories want, except its the wrong man!!

This is great and it galvanises the election. People are not stupid and perhaps many are looking for a new and exciting difference.

It is their choice and maybe the new and young will win just like Obama did in 2008.

19 April