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Originally Posted by Slava
^^I would guess that the PCs have more than 51 candidates. If not that could be rectified within a few weeks of the leadership.
Thats not to say that the Wildrose hasn't done a lot of work. I do think that alot of their work is going to pay off in seats....but I would guess they end up with about 15-20 at this point.
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I think that you are being overly optimistic in your seat totals for the Wildrose Party, who I think benefited from Stelmach being viewed as a failure as a Premier more than anything else. Now that Stelmach is gone I think that a great deal of the Wildrose support base will erode as people gravitate back to a familiar political party. I think that it would be agreat success if they were able to get 6-8 seats
I think the vast majority of people who supported the WAP in the polls did so because they disapproved of the direction of the PCs, not because of approval of the WAP policies - many of which I view as being overly socially conservative, something that may play positively in the rural but will cost them big in the cities.