Catching Clegg, Cameron and Brown
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This week spotting party leaders in West Yorkshire has been bit like trying to catch a bus. You don't see one for ages and then three come along one after the other.
Clegg toured Bradford on Tuesday; Brown was in Leeds all day on Wednesday and Thursday saw Cameron hit Halifax.
The lure of "Marginal County" has proved irresistible as the parties pour resources into the seats where this election will be won or lost.
South Yorkshire has seen hardly seen anything of them and North Yorkshire nothing at all.
That's not surprising as it is West Yorkshire that is stuffed full of Labour-held key marginals.
The visits are becoming highly complex and involve a cast of thousands.
Before the campaign started all three main parties said they wanted members of the media to register with them and receive a glossy official photo identity card to attend election events.
My LibDem card arrived a couple of days after the campaign started.
Conservatives sent all the cards to the BBC in London - after all, isn't that where we all work?
I am sure the Labour card will arrive soon.
So far I haven't been asked to show any of them and I'm attending an average of three events a day.
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I'm Len Tingle, the Political Editor for BBC Yorkshire. You can see me most Sunday lunchtimes when I hit the road with the Politics Show's live satellite truck. I also reflect the region's politics on Look North, the BBC's local radio stations and our web pages. Welcome to my blog.
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