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Old 09-06-2014, 10:15 PM   #46
Slava
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Originally Posted by Jacks View Post
Seems to me that it would be much more appropriate to compare the numbers to their own recent leadership contests. The number of voters seems to be dropping in half each time.
Sure but there are a lot of factors. Everyone knew Prentice would win. People are not terribly excited when it's a known outcome. Surely some of the decline is peoples disillusionment with the party as well. But I believe that there is also a factor of people just disillusioned with politics in general. Both the Liberals and Wildrose had roughly 8000 people vote. The NDP has a leadership race right now, and I doubt they top that number. The Alberta Party had like 250 people out for their leadership a couple years ago. It just makes me wonder if numbers are down across the board?
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