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I'm not going to say too much about this, but the difference between 30% of the vote and 9% of the vote is a pretty wide margin...
“We need to give voters in Alberta the faith that their vote can bring about a change,” she says, disagreeing that the Liberals have a better chance of defeating the Tories than her party does.
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Fascinating partisan rounding technique, there. *grin*
Actually, I don't think the Liberals have a better chance than the NDP to defeat the Tories. Neither of them stand a chance. :-)
Rachel Notley might win in Edmonton Strathcona, but the NDP are a far shot for even forming Official Opposition.
Under Brian Mason, this party has near zero growth potential and will probably have a difficult time retaining all of their seats in the next election. The Alberta NDP should dump Mason and take a new leadership under someone like Dave Eggen or Linda Duncan. Then we might see some actual effective oppositioning done by the NDP in Alberta.
I'm not holding my breath.
I agree that the NDP have been a fairly effective opposition under Mason in the form of protesting the loudest and getting the most media attention of the three opposition parties, but I havent seen them offer any substantial policy solutions and vision for Alberta like Taft's Liberals have.
However unlikely it may seem now, Alberta opposition politics can be fairly fluid.
I don't think this would happen under Mason, but the NDP had 25% range support in the 1980's before the Liberals overtook them. Of course, the NDP will need to do a lot to displace the Liberals base across Alberta and become more than just an isolated urban Edmonton party.
If the last election is any indication, the NDP came in first in four constituencies, and second in only two others (Edm-Glenora and West Yellowhead). I think the NDP are a long way away from competing in the same world as the PC's and Liberals for the government.
I was at the Edmonton Strathcona nomination meeting last night. Jack Layton was there and it seemed that the entire time they were asking us for money. it was kinda lame.
The NDP are legends in their own minds...
I'm more interested in the difference between 9.79% and 9.10%...
I know how you feel Jim. I used to vote and volunteer for the NDP in elections but their damn morally self-ritious, self-congradulatory attitude pissed me off to the point where I couldn't volunteer for them any more. It's a shame. there are some really good people involved in the NDP, they just fall into some nasty groupthink when become a unit.
Hmm . . . 30%?
According to Leger marketing, the situation is a little different now:
"The Progressive Conservative Party would have received
54% of the votes if a provincial election were held in late
September, compared to 12% for the Liberals and 9% for
the New Democratic Party."
http://www.legermarketing.com/documents/pol/061004ENG.pdf
THere's only one poll that matters and between every election period in Alberta there are polls that always say that the opposition is going to get steemrolled into nothingness. Yet, they never seem to come true. Didn't the last pre-election polls have the Liberals and NDP at 14% and 17%? Meaningless. They both ended up with different numbers.
No one is thinking about an election right now. Wait until it starts to get revved up again. You'll see the Liberals support rise.
Having just moved from Manitoba to Alberta, I'm surprised that the Alberta NDP haven't done the sensible thing and move towards the centre - where most of their potential votes are. Instead, Brian Mason seems content to keep the NDP on the tiny irrelevant left fringe of Alberta politics.
Until the NDP move to Albertans, Albertans will not move to the NDP and the NDP will remain a non-player in Alberta electoral politics.
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