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Originally Posted by driveway
If someone came tearing out of Alberta with the kind of charisma and electability that Obama seems to be demonstrating in the States (I don't want to turn this into an Obama thread, we have enough of those, but it seems like an apt analogy) I bet you would see victory-hungry Liberals flocking to his or her banner like Kevin Lowe to an RFA.
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Except, as we've seen from the likes of Trudeau and Chretien, on the way down to the grass roots ... people ... like Johnny 99, Alberta is a disposable province to the Liberals. An Albertan as Liberal leader doesn't resonate in Ontario or Quebec any more than a Quebecker as leader resonates in Alberta.
It cost the Federal Liberals over $1 billion to fold CFB Calgary into CFB Edmonton just to help Landslide Annie win by 100 votes. The value of an Alberta leader is negligible to the Liberals.