People also need to realize that the voting population always becomes disgruntled when things go wrong. Look at the US and how quickly they forgot that the Republicans screwed them over for 8 years. Now, just 1 year after giving the Democrats the House and Congress, those same Democrats could quite possibly lose a lot of seats to the Republicans. The Republicans that took their turn the past 8 years doing what the Democrats are doing now.
The price of oil is going up. Not sure what gas is doing though. But oil is sitting right around $80/bbl right now and from all indications its going to keep going up. The economy, at least in Canada is also appearing to be on the rebound. If that keeps up, and Alberta pulls out of this slump before 2012 and things start looking up(or down when you talk about the deficit).....will the people still vote for the WRA?
These are all things that need to be considered by any MLA that wants to 'jump ship' as people call it.
Personally, the more I read about Anderson, the less I think he is actually just jumping ship. There is a lot more to his decision than simply not wanting to be a part of sinking Conservative ship.
But I could be mistaken.
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