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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
That's spot on to what I'm observing in my riding (Calgary Foothills). I'm getting the impression that the Tories are in real trouble here. Wildrose had signs up on day 1 of the writ being dropped and I noticed within a day on my daily running route that Wildrose signs had made it to individual homeowners lawns. Now a week later Len Webber has finally got his signs out, but they are only on public property. I haven't seen one PC sign on a homeowners lawn, but yet a whole crapload of Wildrose signs in front lawns. The best case scenario for the PCs would be that there's enough soft support to pull it off. It appears though that no one in my hood is proud enough to flash a PC sign.
It just seems to me that the Wildrose were prepared to campaign hard, and the PCs were arrogant and complacent and assumed that in formerly safe Calgary ridings that they could just cruise to victory without much effort.
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The PCs are finally having to run a campaign. Last time in my riding there probably wasn't a single sign for the first week and a half from anyone. This time there are signs and I've seen the PC out door knocking as well. Its good for democracy.
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Originally Posted by SebC
Or maybe they were busy governing. [/deadpan]
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There is a little bit of truth to that. Danielle Smith spent the past two years traveling the province and meeting with people. Not that she was starting her campaign at that point, but she wasn't sitting around waiting for the writ to drop! Thats something I can respect and commend. I always hated how opposition parties waited for the writ to drop to start doing anything.