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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
You can spin this the same way if you look at Alberta provincial politics. The Liberals got seats in Central Calgary, Central Edmonton an one in Lethbridge.
You take out those areas an no other party other than PC got a single seat!
I'm not sure how valuable that type of analysis is.
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I don't follow your logic. The original statement was that outside of Alberta the Liberals are a national party. My math shows that to be false. They have no strong base of support anywhere outside of Toronto. How can a so-called national party truly call itself a national party when it has no base of support outside of one regional metro area?
I don't get the Alberta analogy. Alberta provincial politics are totally screwed up too, that I will agree with, but I don't see where the analogy fits. It's a different situation. For one thing neither the Liberals or any party other than the PCs have any kind of power base in Alberta. So including or excluding regional results doesn't change anything. And for the analogy to hold, someone would have to be making the claim that outside of Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge, the Liberals are a provincial party. Then the analogy would work. But I don't think anyone would ever make that claim about the provincial Liberals.