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Originally Posted by timun
 Smith is less popular than Kenney was though. His problem was unpopularity within factions of his own party, not the electorate. I think had he stayed the election results would have been pretty much exactly the same. |
I think at least as good. Kenney was more unpopular with the far right wing of the party and people who aren't UCP voters anyway, but neither of those groups changed their vote in the actual election so the switch didn't affect the outcome there.
But Smith, with the Wild Rose/kicked off the school board band of crazy is less palatable to the moderate conservative voter, which is the majority in AB. Some/many of those people held their nose and voted for her anyway, since the alternative was named NDP. But I bet more of them would have voted UCP for Kenney.