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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Nope, but it was presented as evidence that they couldn't win no matter what.
It's like the Simpson's meme: "we've tried nothing - and we're all out of ideas!"
The ANDP has polling that their name is hurting them, and Notley refused to change it out of deference to her father. IMO, that's a bad reason for the rest of us to get stuck with Smith.
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Doubling down eh bizaro?
I don’t doubt that there are people, probably even a lot of people, in this province who are naive enough to vote for a party based simply on their name but personally I doubt that they would make up a large enough voting block to have shifted the last election in favour of the NDP.
This name change for the win theory also doesn’t take into consideration that there are actually some ANDP supporters who believe it or not vote for them because they actually think they are pushing for what the federal party wants and as ridiculous as it may sound they would likely vote elsewhere in protest if they changed their name.
In the polling you’re referencing were people specifically asked whether they would vote for the exact same party with the exact same people and policies if it were simply under a different name? (I’m honestly asking because I have no idea which polling you’re referencing)