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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I don’t buy that it’s downstream of the federal NDP collapse. That collapse was largely a consequence of opposition to the CPC uniting under the Liberal banner. If it were about the NDP brand losing appeal, why isn’t an alternative to the NDP forming in Alberta on the center-left?
The NDP have actually lost support in Calgary since Nenshi won the leadership. That takes some explaining.
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I think it's downstream of the federal election results, but
not anything to do with the federal NDP.
In the same way the Trump victory and and subsequent attack on Canada pushed support away from the CPC (regarded by the electorate as most aligned with the GOP) and toward the LPC, I think we're seeing the results of the federal election influence provincial support away from the ABNDP (seen as most aligned with the LPC) and toward the UCP, if only just in the current polling. And as Fuzz mentioned, it doesn't help that Nenshi has been artificially kept out of the Legislature for so long thanks to delaying calling a byelection.
This is the sort of thing that makes me wish left-leaning parties would stop doing right-wing parties any courtesies; they sure as hell do
not get re-paid in kind.