When I wrote this post arguing against early declarations of support for either Clegg or Huhne, I was worried that I might have to embarrassingly retract it shortly afterwards, having come down decisively in favour of one of the candidates. So it's with some relief that, nearly two weeks on, I'm still undecided.

I haven't been much swayed by the arguments on policy so far. Trident was never going to be a deciding issue for me, but I confess to being disappointed by the general tone of Huhne's campaign thus far. He talks a lot about the need for boldness and brave ideas, but his ideas thus far don't seem to be terribly bold. This post by Jonny Wright highlights Huhne's stance on drug policy, which appears to suffer from the same problem. The rhetoric is all there; talking about "the courage of our convictions", but his actual proposal seems to be that the government should take more medical advice, and he appears to oppose any liberalisation of drug laws. If anything, he seems to be advocating a tougher line on alcohol!

As for Nick Clegg, I see less to disagree with, but that's mostly because I see less full stop. At the moment, I'd say that Nick is ahead on points, but he needs to land some knockout punches to secure my vote. In the last leadership election, I voted for Ming because I believed that he would be better once securely in the job, and ignored the fact that Huhne ran a far better campaign. I won't be doing that this time, and if we approach the finishing line with Huhne having run the better campaign, he'll get my vote. Much will depend on how the candidates perform in the hustings, including the BBC Question Time special next week.

Over the next few days, I'm going to try to get a better understanding of the two candidates and I'll be documenting my thoughts here.