Posting by phone from the Stephen Harper Rally in Surrey, BC

I’m at the Stephen Harper Rally in Surrey tonight at the Sheraton Landmark in Guilford. Candidate Harvey Grigg’s daughte Shauna should be e-mailing some photos to Alice to post from tonight.

Stephen was escorted in and shook hands with everyone about a quarter after 6:00. He recognized me from the website and said hello.

Jim Holt, a worker on Germont Grewal’s campaign, gave me a conservative t-shirt and we had a chat together, reminiscing about past campaigns. Said he checked the website a little while ago and it was looking good. They always get a kick at the way I skewer the Liberals on it.

I got a hug and a hello from Candidate Alice Wong, who is running in Richmond, and said to say hi to Alice (my wife). Looks like she might take out Raymond Chan, the Liberal candidate.

God I’m just dying here, I’m wearing two shirts with the conservative t-shirt on top of my Golf Shirt. It’s quite warm in the ballroom.

I talked to James Moore and Germont Grewal and both said their campaigns are going well. Everyone is really pumped up at the possibility of taking government this time. Polls are looking good; we’ll be minority government at the worst.

Stephen Harper was really positive tonight, and he had a great speech. Everything is really positive about the chance of winning government here. You can just feel the electricity in the room.

Oh, there goes the Stephen Harper bus now. Maybe out to the airport to take Stephen to the next event.

Yesterday I was having lunch downtown at a little Chinese restaurant on Denman Street. Two young couples in their early 20’s sat down at the table next to me, very young, possibly university students. They got talking about the election, and the youngest girl there said she was thinking of voting Conservative, because she just couldn’t vote for the Liberals with all their corruption and thievery. And they proceeded to talk about health care. She was convinced that the Conservative Party would be able to fix health care.

Her only concern was some of the wing nut faction in the party. She was wondering why they spout off their views, when it isn’t their party policy. But she felt she could trust Stephen Harper a lot more than Paul Martin, and that was why she was going to vote Conservative.

We’ve got one more day of campaigning, and then Monday we will be out scrutineering and getting out the vote. It's really important if you want change to get the vote out.