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Originally Posted by Table 5
One party might have disdain for you, but the party in power has complete ambivalence and takes you for granted. I'm not sure which is worse.
Chances are that if a Liberal (or Green or NDP) gets voted in Calgary of all places, both of them will start listening a little more....for selfish reasons of course, but they might start listening.
Vote Crockatt in, and both will continue to ignore you.
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I think voting NDP or Green signals to the Liberals that should ingore us. It could easily be interpreted as us being so anti-Liberal that we're voting for someone even further from the Albertan mainstream out of spite. Such an interpretation may not be entirely correct (because I think Turner is a very good candidate) but it could the perception anyways.
So the way I see it is this:
If you want the Conservatives and the Liberals to pay attention, vote Liberal.
If you want the Conservatives to pay attention, vote Green.
If you want nobody to pay attention, vote Conservative.
(If you want to throw your vote away, vote NDP.)
Then consider that voting Green also looks to be throwing your vote away, and throwing your vote away is equivalent to voting Conservative.