Ignatieff's weakness has NDP setting sights

John Ivison, The National Post:

Jack Layton’s challenge in 2011 is to win the support of one in four voters, from the current one in six who tend to back the NDP through thick and thin. “We need to grow the party based on demonstrated results,” he said in a year-end interview in his office on Parliament Hill Tuesday.

If he succeeds, he will become leader of the Official Opposition — his goal since becoming leader eight years ago. He flirted with the job once before during the 2008 election, when his party rose above 20% in the polls and Stéphane Dion’s Liberals were losing momentum.

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