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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
I don't speak for all Wildrose supporters, but what you have described is hardly a nightmare situation for me. It seems almost ideal actually.
Respectable leader cleans up the PC party and gets things running smoothly in government.
I don't think the WRA and PC goals are very different, the problem is that I don't trust the current PC group to put the provinces needs ahead of their own political gain.
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But that's sort of my point. The support for the Wildrose is artificially inflated by hatred of the current PCs. I think that like you said, if Prentice comes in and runs things smoothly that a good chunk of Wildrose support will go right back to the PCs. I don't think there's a ton of hard support for the Wildrose, their true hard support numbers are closer to the 25-30% range, with a massive gap between their support in rural areas and the cities.
Voter apathy can only carry a party so far, at some point they have to produce their own ideas that resonate with voters as opposed to "We're not them, vote for us". It didn't work in BC, it didn't work in Ontario and it pretty much didn't work in Quebec (although that was political suicide by the PQ opening the seperation can of worms more than anything)