Talk of 'kingmakers' has dominated the polls in the run-up to the campaign proper, a sign that this election is shaping up wide open. The writer pins the difference on disgruntled voters and the openings that creates, plus a dose of first-termitis, the restlessness that builds inside a governing party once its first term wears on. With the usual big players on shakier ground, most of the pre-campaign chatter has drifted away from who will win and toward who might end up holding the balance of power.