[AdrianR]

Is there a likely Liberal leader candidate if Charest retires? Could the new leader end up shifting the Liberal party closer to federal Liberals?

[GiveEmDubya]

They (studio analysts) are more keen to seeing Charest take a seat in a by-election. Myself, I think his goose is cooked. Not a word about who'd replace him. His deputy premier maybe?

Over a 13% swing from Liberal to ADQ tonight. Incredible.

[GMMAC]

Don't think there's a readily apparent successor to Charest &, as for getting closer to their federal cousins, au contraire !!!
Rest assured Charest loyalists are already laying a considerable amount of the blame for tonight's debacle on the still more than lingering aroma of Librano$ sleaze & corruption.

This marks the perfect scenario for Stephen Harper & the CPC:
- Provincial Liberals now leaderless & inward-looking & at loggerheads with the Liberal Party of Canada.
- Separatist camp bloodied & demoralized.
- the door to huge CPC electoral gains in at least French Quebec (3/4 of the province) is now wide open!