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The NDP campaign was a 28-day manure spreader

Madu was defamed as a white supremacist sympathizer by Archer in a Press Progress story after Madu posted a photo of himself on his Facebook page with a campaign sign on a lawn that said “StopNotley.com,” which had a small logo from The Rebel media organization in the right top corner.

Madu’s rival tweeted before the April 1 Press Progress story appeared, calling on Madu to “apologize” for promoting The Rebel.

“My opponent is praising The Rebel,” Archer tweeted. “This is not who we are, Alberta. I call on my opponent (Madu) to apologize.”

The absurdity of that criticism is that Madu is a Nigerian-born black man. Clearly, the constituents of that riding weren’t buying the cynical hate-mongering by the NDP.

“For lack of a better term, the NDP campaign was a 28-day manure spreader,” said Marc Henry, the president of ThinkHQ Public Affairs, whose polls forecast a UCP majority throughout the campaign.

“I kept expecting at some point in the campaign for the NDP to pivot off of the negativity. I found it ironic that the premier’s concession speech was the highlight of her campaign. If she would have taken that tone and content at the beginning of the campaign, she might have had a very different result,” said Henry.

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