The “good” news is that the number of people that voted for Harper was down even though his share of the popular vote went up. In 2006 5,374,071 Canadians voted for the Conservatives. In 2008 that number went down 168,737. Now here is the bad news for Liberals. Not only was the Liberal share of the popular vote at a historic low, the number of Canadians that voted Liberal was the lowest since 1984. And if you throw out 1984, you have to go back to 1965 to see so few ballots cast for the Liberals. The Liberal vote went down by 849,425. Between 2004 and 2006, the number of people casting the vote for the Liberals went down by 471,692.

This is this is the second worst election performance for the Liberals in modern era.

 So long as Dion is leader, the Liberals remain irrelevant and their base uninspired.  So long as he remains leader fundraising numbers will remain pitifully low.  Dion needs to go now. The longer the Liberals wait the more their brand will continue to wither and die.  Anybody who thinks otherwise is delusional.