October 14, 2008 -- E-Day???

That's the date being talked about but October 14 falls on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

A PMO official said Sukkot, along with Thanksgiving and several other religious holidays during October, "does present challenges" in choosing an election day. But he noted that people can vote in advance polls if they can't or don't want to cast a ballot on election day. What he didn't note was that very few people actually do vote in advance polls.

In most ridings Sukkot is totally irrelevant but for a few, including Thornhill, it is exactly the type of thing to cut the vote of the Jews most likely to vote Conservative.

Stay tuned!