As you can imagine, outside the garden-variety surrealism of Newfoundland and Labrador politics, this made for a pretty boring campaign.
But for people living there, does a safe seat mean a boring election campaign?
David: I do agree that only the president can really frame the debate, and he ran a small-bore campaign and so does not have the mandate to send the country off on a different course.
During most election years, August is the silent season -- a time for quiet fund-raising, low-key appearances at barbecues and beaches and behind-the-scenes preparation to kick off a full-bore campaign on Labor Day.
There's no need to wonder what was behind Collier's full-bore campaign to obtain a pardon.
He provided the polling used by Dick Morris, then an influential adviser to Mr. Clinton, to create Mr. Clinton's small-bore campaign strategy, much of it aimed at wooing so-called soccer moms with positions like support for school uniforms and for the V-chip to monitor violence on television.
Recently, Democrats have tried to curtail the influence of billionaires by proposing small-bore campaign finance fixes, like mandatory donor disclosure, or pie-in-the-sky constitutional amendments to limit the amount of money in politics.
TV without romance is Grade-A boring.
With the legislating essentially completed for now, it was immediately clear that the full-bore campaigning had begun.
