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The Liberal party's campaign has collapsed and the election is effectively over, says a long-time Liberal activist and author of a forthcoming book on Canadian elections. Ray Argyle, a past president of two Toronto-area Liberal riding associations and an advisor to a number of senior provincial Liberals, said the ineffectiveness of Prime Minister Martin as a campaigner and the inability of his team to unite the party has "virtually given the election to the Conservative party by default." "The Liberal campaign has collapsed and the election is effectively over," he said.