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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I really dislike this tactic / point of view (not you personally fuzz, you’re cool). It’s a morally hesitant and sort of weak way of approaching decision making to elect someone because you might get some kickbacks. I have a lot more respect for people who vote and stand up for what they believe in.
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I get what you're saying but here's the problem: either you elect someone on the hope that they might give you a second thought, or you keep electing the people who
never do because they take your vote for granted. The CPC has no need to try for Alberta's votes because they know they've got it on lock. CPC spends all their energy courting eastern Canada for two reasons: 1. the east has more representation (which is a fair gripe), and 2. because they have to
earn the votes there.
Like I shared in the other thread, my building downtown had the CPC come by for some political canvassing, and when I let the guy at my door know out of courtesy that I'd already voted, the answer was "Can we assume you voted Conservative?" 'Can we assu-' NO, you cannot assume I voted for you; I didn't, so work for it next time.
Politics in this province are broken to hell because every conservative politician be it federal, provincial, and more recently in some cases even municipal can just assume "it's Alberta, of course they're voting blue". Rempel-Garner doesn't even bloody live here and won handily. It's unfortunate Calgary Centre just missed the mark voting out Greg McLean; yes, I know he's generally about as socially progressive as today's CPC gets, but we still get nothing for it (and I would love to never see another slogan-laden mailer from him again).
It's a relief that Hogan won Confederation given Chahal's defeat in McKnight, it would have been god damned depressing to see the entire city / province go solid blue.