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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
Please explain electing Danielle Smith. These are not numbers that should ever result in a 'Smith' type as premier, correct? Or these are polling numbers that are pretty much useless when it comes to who forms the government?
Because of you look at an AB political map it looks almost exactly like an Illinois map. A couple bright blue areas surrounded by a sea of red. And yet Illinois is always one of the more progressive states.
So I guess that's what it shows - even the most 'progressive' states lag significantly behind Canada's least progressive provinces?
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Albertans, especially in the cities, are more fiscally conservative than socially. There’s also huge ties to oil and gas obviously. People vote for their own interests and the NDP has a reputation of big spenders who hate oil, so here we are.
Most of us have lived our entire lives under Conservative rules, and things have been pretty good. It was only recently that they started courting the wackos who want to ban abortions, free healthcare, and the gays.