I think this is a typical Mason article about BC politics.  If you read his stuff before the election, he was unrelentingly anti-Liberal and seems to have a personal dislike for Clark.  So I think his title is more about his wishful thinking than reality.  Given the polls with the NDP up by 12 prior to the election being called,  this is not a bad result for the Liberals although I am sure they would have liked one more seat.  Brunogerussi2's comments below are also misplaced for the most part except for the jobs record, balanced budget, and growth.  One would expect that those sorts of accomplishments would have given the Liberals the edge and probably did account for their 13 point recovery in the polls. .   Of course the Libs lost pretty much every close contest.  So there's that at play as well in terms of the overall result.  Also, Bruno points out that 60% of the voters oppose the Lib platform....and 61% oppose the NDP platform.