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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
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.
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I have a couple take aways here, the first being that the conservatives did campaign on multiple topics which were proportionally more beneficial for the west (carbon tax scrapping, pipelines to the east) before the liberals did the same. To say they did not try for the Albertan vote seems misguided, a read through the conservative platform would prove that wrong.
https://www.clearbluemarkets.com/kno...rm?hs_amp=true
And secondly, is your issue with the Conservative Party overlooking AB or is it every party overlooking AB due to representation levels? The tone I took from your post points to the latter. We as Albertans aren’t the big electoral fish in Canada, never have been, but thanks to the Cheeto In Command the rest of Canada is now warming up to policy which would benefit us in a major way. Luckily politicians of both LPC and CPC seem to understand that, and I hope we can all benefit from it.