The 41st general election appears to be "leader-centric," the political parties are focusing on "micro-politics" to win seats locally, and the parties are having difficulty connecting with voters because "lunch-bucket language" doesn't cut it anymore with today's voters, say political experts.
"There seems to me to be a change," said University of Regina political science professor David Smith, who wrote the 2008 Donner prize-winning The People's House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention.
"I think what has struck me recently, looking at the front page of The Globe and Mail, or something, is that you almost never see, at least I don't see it, reference to policies. You see reference to well, we're going to increase or decrease taxes and that's about it."
Source: The Hill Times
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