even in end of summer mode enjoying the food and the Sunshine the announcement that flipped BC Politics on its head was top of mind oh wasn't that something hey it's never boring we certainly put the US in the back burner now for a couple of days I well it's disappointing that now we only have two choices so it's kind of bipolarized recent polls suggested about 10% of the decided voters in these crowds would have supported BC United it is a close race and so if the BC conservatives are able to get a big chunk of that 10% they might be able to pull ahead of the NDP but the tone of the political discourse May shake out the vote in unexpected ways right now the center has been abandoned and if you're looking at where voters stand right now the NDP might actually represent more of the center for a lot of those voters than do the BC conservatives and a leader who doesn't believe that climate change is real uh it doesn't think we should be taking climate action already today BC's Premier Painting the conservatives as extreme while BC conservative leader John rustad called that misleading when we come out with our full platform and people see the things that we stand for I think people have a better sense of who we are a platform still to come along with the list of candidates this has been a really tough tough decision for me to make already two high-profile BC United mlas and former cabinet ministers have dropped out there's a lot of people where the jury's out they're going to actually um watch and listen and and engage and see what see what the BC conservatives actually um end up offering British Colombians with seven weeks left not a lot of time to sort things out when it comes election that's when I open my newspaper and I search my candidates for the area that's best for my community no I'm just enjoying my Pat I'll think about things that are of lesser importance tomorrow with Summer Fun ending the countdown to election day is on Susanna the Silva CBC News Vancouver