Jack Layton promised he would force credit card companies to lower their outrageous interest rates which was  something the public liked and meant something to them than general  idealogy.  Mulcair came across as a negative spitfire with a short ass mentality. While Mulcair was critizing the liberal polices, the Liberals were stealing the NDP policies of John Layton.. The NDP probably will  win no more than 20 seats in the next federal election unless they can get a leader with chrisma and good tv showbiz looks like Trudeau. The NDP  party in Newfoundland is worst than the federal NDP in that it is almost dead, despite the fact everybody hates both the liberals and conservatives, the NDP here seem to attract people with a low energy level and the washed up  artsy fartsy egg jugglers type.