Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak waves to supporters on stage at his campaign headquarters in Niagara Falls, Ont., on Thursday. A lacklustre Conservative campaign helped Dalton McGuinty become Ontario’s first three-term Liberal premier in more than a century Thursday, but his record of broken promises and higher taxes made the win anything but decisive. The month-long campaign was marked by seismic shifts in public opinion that began with Hudak as the clear front-runner. By voting day, however, most polls and analysts were predicting that Hudak had fallen short in his efforts to pry McGuinty from office. “Tim Hudak blew it,” said Larry Savage of Brock University’s political science department.