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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
Task 3
This is our chance to take official opposition status. The PCs and WR will split the right wing vote and we can grab seats where we take 35 or 40 % of the vote. We can really make an impact and need to seize the opportunity while Redford is still leading the PCs
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Interesting game. I generally agree for the Liberals and NDP. For the PCs, it is hard to come up with an argument while Redford is in charge. If they manage to oust her, the new leader can then talk about healing and going new directions, etc. It would be marginally believable if a fiscal conservative were to win the leadership.
But for the argument above, I get what you are saying in terms of the NDP's arguments in this hypothetical, however the only people that such a message would convince are the few die-hard NDP supporters that exist in this province. Wildrose and the PCs owned nearly 80% of the vote last time around. Splitting the vote on the "right" doesn't benefit the NDP at all. For them to have any hope of official opposition status, they would actually need at least 25% of that vote to not only move left, but to bypass the Liberals entirely. Not going to happen. So your argument here is actually a good one for the Liberals to be making rather than the NDP.