I am not here to debate policy, to pump UCP tires or trash the NDP etc. Just conversation. Do I think a name change will help? Perhaps a bit, I think a lot of NDP voters think it may have an outsized expectation that it will flip a lot more seats than it will? Perhaps the UCP thinks a name change is a larger concern and that is why they are trying to tie Notley,Nenshi, Gondek and Trudeau all together in hopes of association. I dunno.
I have been on this thread before talking about how the NDP could really win, despite me being on an opposite end of the spectrum.
Flipping just a few seats in the Calgary area with some more progressive policies may potentially get another NDP minority government and maybe even a 4 year majority one time, but is that really the path forward for the NDP and it's voters for long term change? You need to expand and hold onto more seats in rural Alberta.
Politics is all about being nimble, moving around, neutralizing fires, being tactical and more. Looking internally at policies that may or may not be working is also paramount as well. This is how you get left leaning leadership candidates like Rakhi Pancholi from the AB NDP and Mark Carney from the federal Liberals saying things like scrap the carbon tax and that it filled it's pupose until now, we need to move onto something else. You can't sell it the other way to Albertan's and Canadian's the way it was before.
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