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Originally Posted by Zarley
They formed the government because a sizable minority of (ill-informed) Albertans voted for a charismatic party leader without consulting the NDP platform before the election. I doubt more than 50% of NDP voters even knew what the party had planned with respect to corporate tax rates at the time of the election.
It really highlights a shortcoming of our education system. The fact that so many people are woefully uneducated with respect to finance and macroeconomics is a very concerning problem.
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I would reject that whole idea of people being ill-informed, I am very informed and voted NDP based on their platform. I believe a lot of people did also. There is something to be said for the social issues, the government has more to do than just balance the books.
Their policies are as valid as any other party's and have been validated on numerous occasions by industry. It is a ####ty situation that no other government would be doing well in. I am not going to say they haven't made mistakes, but I think it is a fools dream to think the Wildrose would have lifted Alberta out of this recession any faster, but that we will never know.
Sure there are some people that regret their vote and did not know who they were voting for but a lot of Wildrosers did too I'm sure. To blame the whole election on ill-informed or uneducated is unfounded and sour grapes, especially considering it was a swing by the educated that helped the election.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle24352152/
"Big shifts in voting patterns were related to education levels. Ridings that have above-average proportions of university-degree holders went overwhelmingly PC in 2012 – 32 of the 43 ridings – and 29 of them went NDP this time. Ridings with lower levels of university education, according to Statistics Canada, shifted toward the NDP as well, but remained a strength of the Wildrose in both elections."