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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Sure, but the Wildrose then may not be the Wildrose now, and the Redford Tories may not be the Prentice Tories, etc. Such ridings may benefit from voter apathy, given a Wildrose voter may not switch to Liberal even if they don't want to vote PC, etc.
You're basically just falling into your usual "lets argue absolutes to trash Wildrose and/or people I don't like" shtick again.
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I'm really not just trashing the Wildrose here. It's just interesting to see people who want to see Smith feel the wrath of voters, and in the coming weeks make the exact move she just did. You can dress it up however you want, be it the parties are so different now or whatever. The fact remains that people who voted for Smith as a Wildrose MLA and we're upset that she crossed the floor are going to vote PC. It's not about trashing anyone, I just find that interesting. Really the Wildrose themselves ought to be interested because if people were upset with Prentice say December 1, policy wise nothing has changed, and they should be all over those voters.
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Originally Posted by Fire
I doubt the people who voted WR last election are going to vote for the PCs this time around, except for a small percentage.
I think it would go something like the following for previous WR voters:
50% will still vote WR
40% will not vote at all
10% will vote for PC.
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It could be. My original line of thought was that there were very few actual differences between the PCs and Wildrose to begin with though, so that makes switching as the winds change much easier to rationalize for voters. It's not like a switch from the NDP to the Wildrose where there are core differences that would be hard to overcome.