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There are four more weeks until we find out whether Stephen Harper is a political honey badger, able to repel blows that habitually fell others, or the Black Knight of Monty Python fame, defeated by the “flesh wounds” of ten years of government.

That we’re even asking this question seven weeks into this marathon campaign is proof of Harper’s nous. The last Conservative government that hung around this long went with a bang, not a tight three-way dogfight.

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To date, the Prime Minister has been Duffied, refugeed, and caught low by a scruffy economy. He’s had little to no traction with positive messages in the national press. And yet, here he is, in contention as we come to the stretch of the campaign that takes us to the stretch that leads to the homestretch.

At this point the NDP and Liberal campaigns must be wondering what it will take to see him off; they’ve stabbed the Prime Minister with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast.