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Vaughn Palmer: Campaigns matter, and B.C.'s election history proves it

Opinion: A columnist recalls the times election campaigns went sideways for the presumed leader

VICTORIA — Notes from 40 years on the B.C. election beat.

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The first provincial election I covered, in 1986, pitted Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm against New Democrat Bob Skelly. Vander Zalm surfed a wave of publicity from his recent win in a leadership convention.

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Skelly got off to a wretched start with a panic attack in front of a live TV audience (“Can we start again?”). But the New Democrats........

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