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Originally Posted by Ducay
At what point do the left leaning parties wise up and merge to try and pull the left vote and become the opposition?
PCs occupy such a large swath of the spectrum, you'd think they'd (lefties) try and capitalize on it.
#anyonebutWRP
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Originally Posted by Bunk
Yep. Time for a real opposition to (put egos aside) come together and provide a real alternative (big tent - centrist). If not, we're all screwed in an actual one party state type situation. I don't like Wildrose, but at least they are an opposition.
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Originally Posted by Bunk
An opposition has to come together. Has to. Disaffected Red Tories, liberals, Alberta Party - dare I say even NDP.
Put differences (and more importantly egos) aside and create a big tent centrist party.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Well, I could have worded it as "the first half describes politics in general", but the simple fact is, anyone who laments how the electorate just keeps voting in the same people has to realize that a major reason for that is the ineffectiveness of the opposition parties. So yes, any time I come across someone who criticizes the people for failing to vote Liberal or NDP, I will make a remark about why nobody votes Liberal or NDP.
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Originally Posted by Jacks
I highly doubt that many disaffected Conservatives that are disgusted with this are going to drift to the Liberal or NDP parties. A brand new upstart party has about as much chance of forming government as either of those parties do, probably a better chance.
If the Liberals pulled their heads out of their butts, got a decent leader, changed their albatross of a name and totally distanced themselves from their federal cousins they would probably have won an election by now. If they had done that in 1993 they would have probably won then. Taft probably would have had a decent chance against Stelmach without the Liberal baggage also.
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I've seen this kind of thingwritten several times now, in this thread and others.
How do the liberals to merge/turn into a credible centre-left entity when no one in the province will vote for them, often in large part just because of their name? They don't have any seats to combine now, does the alberta party really syphon votes off the Liberals in such a number that it would impact the final election results?
If something as superficial as their name is a limiting factor in attracting votes, how on earth are they going to be 'credible'?
Seems like a great big red herring to me. A moby dick sized red herring.
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Could be a few more Independents sitting in the legislature by next session from what I'm hearing privately.
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Precisely.
The turn to the right and the strong-arming of MLAs on Bill 10 has a few Tories disenchanted.
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Are you suggesting some fracture in the PC Party?
I wonder what happened first, the invitation to come over, or internal turmoil.