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Originally Posted by Slava
Cheese has his analysis bang on. As more people move here from the East it becomes more ingrained that voting Liberal (or NDP for that matter) is not such a terrible thing. When you look at 3 Calgary ridings going Liberal last election, and then another in a byelection this summer you can bet that things are changing here!
In a campaign that I'm working on, we've been on the doorsteps for months now and the reception has been anything but cold. The politics of the right do not play as well to the young professional as people would have you believe.
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That would be great if it were a proportional representative system that we were using but considering that a bulk of the seats still come from the rural areas and the minimal impact that these Easterners have in these areas I am not sure Alberta is in any threat from a Liberal government anytime soon.
Also, there is a big difference from getting a good reception on doorsteps and tangible results at the polls. Canadians still are pretty lousy when it comes to turnout and many of those young professionals that talk about changing the right wing climate here seem to prefer to go out for another martini or make another ten bucks than stop by a polling station.
It will be interesting to see how the next election goes with Stelmach doing a bang up job of running the PC's into the ground but the Liberals and other parties still have a long way to go before they can even be considered respectable let alone a real threat.