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Originally Posted by opendoor
That's how I see it as well. The NDP basically did nothing and thought they could just coast to victory. So many legitimate criticisms of the Liberal government and Clark that could be leveled and I barely heard anything.
A couple of awful leaders and it's shameful that one of them had to end up Premier at the end of this.
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It's rather funny, actually. In my very outside, and likely incredibly uninformed opinion, it seems that Dix tried to duplicate the Happy Professor's performance at the federal level, but lacked the personality to pull it off. Meanwhile, for all the hullabaloo about "attack ads", the simple fact is, the purpose of the opposition is to challenge/attack the government's record. By failing to do so, Dix failed to hold the Liberals accountable, and that reflected in the polls.
Also, some of the twitter talk I saw indicated part of this campaign was "environment vs. economy". If that's accurate, then it was really "idealism vs. realism", and idealism very rarely wins that fight.
The disaster the polls became in Alberta has easy and obvious explanations, even if they don't tell the whole story - the bozo eruptions scaring off voters. It will be interesting to see how the pollsters rationalize this one.