Many saw it coming, I however did not. In the newsroom pool, I predicted 15 NDP seats. I even sat and studied the constituencies based on the results from four years ago. I thought in some urban seats the difference between the Sask Party and NDP was too great and the incumbent government would never make up the percentage to win those seats. And I certainly never thought that veteran MLA Deb Higgins would fall, or that the NDP would lose its one seat in PA.

So the 28 days is over in what can only be described as a rather subdued or boring campaign.

Brad Wall stuck to his message that it is best to stick with what you have seen this past four years and "move the province forward".

Dwain Lingenfelter pushed his message that the province has become unaffordable for many and whether it be a tuition freeze or rent control he has the solutions.

Brad Wall has been your premier for four years now so there is little we don't know about the man who hails from Swift Current. So in order to learn something new this soccer-loving English reporter learned how to play football from Wall who is a certified minor league football coach. I don't think the Riders will be calling anytime soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIpiutDsLmc

I also got a tour of Brad Wall's election campaign bus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jVCqlcOuS8

There is little we don't know about Dwain Lingenfelter's career. He is a veteran politician serving time as deputy premier. He spent time as an oil company executive in Calgary. So what can I learn that is new? Lingenfelter told me he feels most at home when on his family farm in Shaunovan. So this bona fide city girl got a tractor driving lesson from the NDP leader!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c10dBJrQ4M

This is the sit-down interview we did before the tractor ride.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8D22v6d4Y

The NDP launched its cost savings calculator Tuesday in what it maintained was a game-changing move. Interesting timing and one that perhaps should have been made earlier in the campaign.

The NDP has continually faced criticism that its platform is financially unsustainable. Perhaps some voters wouldn't have cared had they known what savings they might make.

The election campaign has just a week to go, or there abouts, and stay tuned because there is a lot still to come.

I have some time both with Brad Wall and Dwain Lingenfelter, those two profiles will play at the end of the week with video!

And the two camps will either ramp it up in the next week, or as political scientist and News Talk election analyst Joe Garcea told me, go into quiet mode and coast it out until November 7th.

We shall see.

No doubt there has been a campaign office spring up in your neighbourhood. So what actually are they for and what is being done there? I found out with help from the Saskatchewan Party's Bill Hutchinson and the NDP's Yens Pedersen.

http://youtu.be/p6Wz6PHBtbA

Thanks to both and their staff for their time.

So the leader's debate is done and I am unsure what to think. It seems in four years it went from one end of the spectrum to the other.

If you recall last time in 2007, then Liberal leader David Karwacki took his "I have nothing to lose" position and ran with it, taking over the leader's debate and garnering all the headlines. It appears to avoid that this time around the organisers and leaders went in the opposite direction.

So the two main political rivals go head to head tonight in the Leader's debate. Both have been hunkering down in preparation doing little campaigning this past 48 hours in already to get ready.

The Saskatchewan Party's full platform is now out and the numbers are in stark contrast to what we have seen from the NDP. Over the four year mandate of government Brad Wall and his team, if re-elected, will cost you $414 million. That is far lower than the NDP's well over $2 billion cost.