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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
I like the idea of a two party system, you always have a majority but usually a strong opposition.
I can't imagine the other parties folding into the Alberta banner though. I can picture them drifting into irrelevance at some future point and us being left with two significant parties and several others who run candidates but don't win.
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My guy tells me that Mason and the NDP gained more traction in this election, I really don't think in the end that Raj was all that effective in getting his message across. He wasn't strong enough to get around the clatter of the WildRose vs PC battle that was happening. Tough to do I know but he needed to find away besides a quip campaign. I also don't think his Twitter work help him out much, especially the one about Bigots and homophobes should flock to the WildRose Banner. I think that was a moment of frustration on his part, but it came across as really unneccessary.
I think that Mason did a fairly goood job with what he had to work with.
A think Allison and the PC's ran a disasterous campaign and followed the Federal Liberal game plan a bit too closely. I also think that Allison just wasn't very good, and you never got the feeling that she was comfortable with her own campaign. To me she focused way to much on Wildrose instead of letting her party stand on what it wanted to do. I think her message could be a dsaster as she really alienated her core support group or voters. Personally I think that she was a bit a trainwreck.
I think that Danielle Smith did a decent job, I think that her speech after the two candidate disaster was a good to great moment for her. However I think that she wasn't as physically prepared for this campaign as she could have been and she looked worn out at the end, and that concerns me. On the positive side for her, she didn't lose her temper, she is a very good public speaker and she didn't really react to the bait that the Liberal's and PC's laid out there. However her platform itself didn't have a strong resonance factor for me, just like the PC's campaign didn't really make me jump up and go yeah, yeah baby that's what I want.
This election is going to comedown to emotions and the desire for change and for the Wildrose the hope that the angry voters that stayed away from the booths last time will hit the boots this time as they see WR as a viable change engine in the provincial government.