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Originally Posted by Slava
If the WRA faces an influx of PC members and PC MLA's (maybe faces is the wrong word here and that word should be "experiences" instead) then on has to wonder what really differentiates them from the PC party at that point?
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Well ultimately what's at stake here is a battle for the traditional PC votership. The PC party moved left, and the traditional voter base didn't. The popular support for the WRA reflects those that have had the PC party tent move left of their stance. Those MLAs, members et al that leave the PC party now or in the not so distant future will ultimately be signalling the same thing. In reaction to this the PCs have to choose whether or not they want to stop the leakage and buck back to the right or to continue to pursue their movement left.
It would be a huge miscalculation on the part of the Liberal braintrust to believe that this current dissatisfaction with Stelmach translates into more support for the same old Liberal causes, because in the eyes of those leaving the PCs for the WAP, the PCs are starting to look red.