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Originally Posted by Slava
The other point about Elbow which makes it so hard for the Alberta Party is the Liberal candidate was a former Alberta party supporter who said she left because the party was going nowhere. More specifically to Elbow though, it's a former Liberal riding and there are actually a lot of Liberals there. So the challenge is not that different from what we saw in Calgary Centre. All these progressives have to coalesce around a candidate. For a party that has nothing, no common knowledge and only hopes and dreams that's asking a lot.
It is a different animal because it's a by election, (assuming it is), but it's still uphill all the way for the Alberta party here.
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A by election is a different animal so a lot could happen. In the long run both the Liberals and Alberta Party will struggle independently. In my opinion they NEED to merge. It's mostly the same kind of people anyway, put egos aside and start building something with hope together. Politicos like myself should not be sitting on the sideline because we have little belief in the prospects of either (I would jump in if they were working together). If the weight of the baggage ends up dragging down the PCs (seems not an unlikely scenario), people will be shopping for alternatives (including disaffected PCs), and that more centrist alternative needs to get its stuff together, and quick.