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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Prentice's biggest mistake was breaking a cardinal rule of politics: never give people an honest answer to a big problem. Very few voters want to hear the truth, or recognize their own culpability in a bad state of affairs. The job of politicians is to paint earnest, idealistic pictures of how they will govern while vilifying some sinister agent of the community's woes. Internalize all that is good, externalize all that is bad.
Don't expect politicians in this province to make that mistake again. So don't expect the NDP to ever recognize that spending is a problem, don't expect the WR to ever recognize that revenue is a problem, and don't expect anyone to ever again take Alberta voters to task for expecting the highest public spending in the country while paying the lowest taxes.
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Sounds like Ontario more than Alberta. I think that was proven to be false with Klein's government, he made the tough choices and Albertan's supported him for it in huge numbers. The PC's had simply become too arrogant and if anything they had/have moved too far to the left. As DiracSpike said, if Prentice hadn't called a ridiculously early election and taken in the defectors with that cringeworthy press conference then he would probably have won at least a minority. If the PC's were to clean up the back room and shift back to the right they would eat the WR's lunch and be well over 50% support again.