With Christmas fast approaching, here’s a Christmas rhyme – apologies to Dr. Seuss.

They stared down at the polls
Tories covered their eyes!
Then they gasped!
What they saw was a shocking surprise!

Every poll from the pollsters, Leger to SES,
Had them losing! Despite this whole sponsorship mess!
They HADN’T stopped Dithers from winning,
HE LED!
Despite income trusts, he was back from the dead!

And then Harper, with his grinch-frown ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?
We’re down despite tax cuts! Big daycare checks!
Despite great photo ops and stylish turtle necks!”
He’d promised them change, to slice the GST.
But then Harper began to finally see
“Maybe Voters,” he thought, “don’t care about policy,
Maybes voters, perhaps, simply just don’t like me!”

And what about Paulie?
Well, the PMO say
That Scott Reid’s big ego
Grew three sizes that day!
In a move that could cripple this blowhard’s career,
He started to muse about popcorn and beer.
So it’s the gaffe prone Board, versus Harper the scary

So who?

WHO INDEED?

Which of these Grinches, will win in January?