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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
I am not surprised one bit about the results of voting here. Vocal left-leaning posters outnumber vocal right-leaning posters on this forum significantly in most politics-related discussions.
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I like to think I'm a vocal left leaning sort myself, but I'm not insane.
http://www.albertandp.ca/platform
You can download their platform there. If I assume they're actually successful in accomplishing the majority of their promises, I actually think it would be bad for the province.
It's not even a matter of a lack of trust; the underlying intentions are flawed at first instance. And they can't pay for those, so once you introduce trust, I'm skeptical.
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Originally Posted by Table 5
I haven't done so yet, but I'm voting for the NDP. I don't really care for them that much (a lot of the time I disagree with their policies), but half the reason I'm voting for them is to show all the Chicken Littles that someone else apart from the PCs can hold government without the world caving in on itself.
I see the situation being similar to trading Iginla.
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Worst post in the thread. Just to show that the world won't end under another party? That's absurd. First because although the world wouldn't end, it would have negative consequences. But second, analogizing politics with sports (where people blindly root for their chosen home team) is everything wrong with North American politics in the first place.
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Complete honesty people, how many of you think this is even possible, if not likely?
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It's pretty unlikely, but just because they're unlikely to drop an atomic bomb on the province does not mean they wouldn't be able to significantly screw things up.
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Alberta Party should have ran more people, I think they would have bested the Liberals in terms of seats with more candidates. Basically they're a business-focused centrist party with a more charismatic leader in Clark and just, well, not the Liberals. I'll be voting for my AP candidate this election too. I just cant' bring myself to vote NDP on account of their waffling on the Keystone issue, and I certainly can't vote Wildrose because of their previous faux pas with religion and anti-gay stuff, not to mention their boogeyman stance on taxes. PC's? Forget about it.
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Yeah, it's a tough one, and I agree with you that the Alberta Party seems like it had an opening here or would have had it been in a position where it could gear up. Everything I see makes them sound like a sound option, except that it also seems like it'd be a wasted vote in most places.
Anyway, I live in Mountain View so the best realistic option here is another Liberal victory for Dr. Swann.