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Originally Posted by Knalus
How do liberals who voted for the Tories feel, now that the party they voted for now consists of the Wildrose?
All those Super right wing, scary anti-gay and lake of fire folks, well, they now represent the government that they voted for. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't? Congrats! Now we have both!
To all those "strategic voters", how must you be feeling about the party you voted for?
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I feel like this applies to me, as an advocate of strategic voting (though my own vote went to Kent Hehr), so here goes:
- It's not all of the Wildrose that's crossing, and I would assume that their worst elements will be the ones left over in the "rump".
- While the Wildrose-PC split made progressive victories more likely, we weren't really strong enough to take advantage. So hypothetically, without strategic voting, we could be in a worse place - perhaps, without the anti-Wildrose sentiment, we have a Wildrose government today? That would certainly be worse.
So, with the Wildrose already looking too weak to form government, this move hurts the progressives in Alberta, but I still think anyone-but-Wildrose was correct.