Liberals have voted to pick a new leader sometime between March and June 2013. I was personally hoping for a shorter timeline but my sense from yesterday’s conference call is Liberals are ready to get to work rebuilding the party in the interim. I think it’s a little naive to assume no one will think about leadership for a year and a half, but this should at least cool the speculation for a bit.

Assuming Rae stays as interim leader right up until the vote, that would give him between 21 and 25 months in charge of the party…not much different from the 29 months Ignatieff held the post, the 24 months Dion was in charge, or even the 26 months Paul Martin was LPC leader.