In the day she’s profiled in the Globe and Mail, Carolyn Bennett has dropped out and tossed her support behind…Bob Rae.

This is probably for the best. Carolyn is an individual who I really like as a person but she certainly wouldn’t have made a good leader and was heading for an embarrassing delegate total if she’d stayed in. As for Rae, this isn’t as big a “get” as Maurizio, but it’s impossible to deny anymore than Bob is a serious contender who could win this thing.

What’s more interesting is the position this leaves Bennett’s supporters in. Today is the deadline to submit your form if you wish to run as a delegate for the convention. So anyone who has already submitted their form to run for Bennett might find themselves unable to run for another candidate at delegate selection time which would be a real shame. Hopefully the party will make some sort of exception and allow them to switch their declared support.