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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The next election won’t be about you. If Nenshi wins the NDP nomination, his strategists aren’t going to give a moment’s thought to you and the others in this thread who hate the UCP. Those votes are money in the bank, and feeding your righteous anger won’t make them count more.
The election will be about persuading tens of thousands of people who voted UCP in the last election to check a box beside their NDP candidate this time around. Nenshi’s prominence in Calgary is an asset there. But as a known quantity, he also comes with baggage. Part of that baggage, as acknowledged by his own team, is that he comes across as arrogant. If that’s a handicap to persuading tens of thousands of Calgarians who voted UCP last election to switch their vote, why wouldn’t you want to see him tone it down?
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This kind of dismisses those who didn't vote however; an NDP win could easily come from persuading those who didn't bother voting last time around. The sentiment of the UCP dragging out a win seemed more inevitable last time around sadly.
This path is honestly less difficult than persuading moderates that Nenshi isn't going to offend their sensibilities of decorum or whatever