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Originally Posted by transplant99
I think Clarke is in tough against Schweitzer. DS has a solid campaign already to roll with his most recent leadership bid and (purely guessing) better financed.
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Well this was kind of the case last time as well. Dirks was a high profile, well financed and well connected PC member, and Clark managed to win by enough to even beat out a PC/WR vote split
Now Clark has the incumbent advantage as well as being a guy people tend to like. If you have people still wanting to protest vote the UCP but not wanting to vote NDP, it's the perfect fit. Eremenko is pretty well connected in he riding but you might still have a bunch of NDP voters seeing the writing on the wall and vote Clark just to prevent a UCP win.
It will be a good riding to watch regardless.