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Campaign experts say that most voters who hadn’t made up their mind by Friday, 72 hours before election day, won’t. They’ll stay home rather than cast a vote they’re not sure of.

So there’s no point in trying to sway anybody’s opinion at this point. We’re either going to make a good choice or a not-so-good choice on Monday.

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And then life will go on and everybody will piss and moan about the outcome. Except for those who stay home. They will be blameless in what befalls us next week, and I for one do not think being indecisive or disinterested is a crime against society.

Most media observers seem convinced we’re going to make a terrible mistake Monday, voting to undo quite a lot of progress made in Ottawa over the last few years — from safer immigration rules to foreign policy, the military, reduced spending and taxes and even improved voting procedures.

Most opinion-makers seem to believe the polls, which are now wrong all over the world; or they believe the “time for change” mantra being chanted by the people who lost the last election. Of course THEY want change.