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VANCOUVER (CP) - In an election campaign where British Columbia's major parties promise the same thing, to stay the course, experts say many voters will choose not between ideas, but personalities.

"Will it be the leader they don't know very well or the leader who many sense they don't like, but can't remember why because he's just been so quiet lately," wonders Prof. Gerald Baier, a University of British Columbia political scientist.