2019 Alberta Vote Compass

[spuzzum]

AP by a landslide. I like the simplistic name of AP. Easy to remember where I'm from.

How many votes would the Saskatchewan Party get? I'm guessing more than the Greens.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Most folks align to the centre.

What they mark on the ballot is another issue. Sometime people will vote strategically to keep out a party they dislike the most.

[Harry Lime]

Before I weight my results to issues that matter the most to me :

Alberta Party 64%
UCP 63%
Dems 60%
Libs 59%
Whomever these guys are 52%

Weighted :

Alberta Party 65%
UCP 64%
Dems 58%
Libs 56%
Dudes 55%


This also put me absolutely dead centre on their political landscape chart, to start with, and after weighting I'm the world's leading social progressive. What does that mean? Does it matter at all that I think that Kenny is a crook for hijacking the leader race? Guess not.

[Sylvanfan]

I'm pretty burned that the following questions were not asked.

Should Connor McDavid be allowed to demand a trade.
Should Connor McDavid have to pay more taxes
How competent do you think Keith Gretzky is.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Is there any purpose to the "no new pipelines should be built in Alberta" question when the 'official' position of all five included parties is "strongly disagree"?

As a voter education tool I think that’s a good question. It allows a person to see that Kenny on many social issues isn’t as extreme as the NDP make him out to be and the NDP isn’t some radical leftist paradise.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by GGG

As a voter education tool I think that’s a good question. It allows a person to see that Kenny on many social issues isn’t as extreme as the NDP make him out to be and the NDP isn’t some radical leftist paradise.

A helpful reality check on where Notley falls on the political spectrum is to ask a BC NDPer what they think of Notley. To them she is basically Milton Friedman. Notley would not be welcome in the BC NDP with her pro-oil industry views and her obvious lack of desire to topple the engine of capitalism and let the proletariat rise from the ashes of our fallen civilization.

[MelBridgeman]

i align with the NDP

[Samonadreau]

Alberta Party it is for me. Sick of everybody else's ####. If the Alberta Party turns out to be crap at least its a different pile and we tried something different.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Alberta Party has recruited some super-solid candidates.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by Slava

I think that it's one thing to have it in your platform, and another thing when it comes to delivery. In my case, while I align most closely with the Alberta Party, that's a super inexperienced group and it's hard to think that the "unicorns and rainbows" platform they have could translate to anything meaningful.

Totally agree. My results say I should vote FCP, but that party only exists because Derek Fildebrandt got kicked out of the UCP and has no marketable skills outside of politics so he created his own party.

FCP - 78
UCP - 77
AP - 48
NDP - 40
LIB - 34

[Dan02]

In this day and age i really don't understand the safety rules should apply at work to everyone but farmers policy except as pandering to a special interest group. Yet all 5 parties are on board.

The Libs, NDP, AP aren't winning any rural ridings anyways, why do it.

Alberta remains the only province where farm workers are excluded from occupational health and safety laws, as well as legislation governing hours of work and overtime, statutory holidays, vacation pay, the right to refuse unsafe work, being informed of work-related dangers and compensation if they are injured on the job.

[GordonBlue]

should someone just rename this the alberta 2019 election thread?
don't want to have competing threads between this and the alberta politics one.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

should someone just rename this the alberta 2019 election thread?
don't want to have competing threads between this and the alberta politics one.

I started this thread so the Vote Compass wouldn't get lost in the Alberta Politics thread.
I think it's a cool, and very useful tool for folks who don't follow things as closely as others.

[killer_carlson]

agreed. Vote compass thread is a good stand alone thread.

I just started a new "Election" thread.

[powderjunkie]

While this is a great tool, it is flawed in it's simplicity (understandably so). Unless anyone can correct me, this does not actually consider platforms or past performance - it is simply matching how we answer with how they answered. We've seen time after time that what politicians say and do are two very different things.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

While this is a great tool, it is flawed in it's simplicity (understandably so). Unless anyone can correct me, this does not actually consider platforms or past performance - it is simply matching how we answer with how they answered. We've seen time after time that what politicians say and do are two very different things.

I think previous edictions of vote compass were based on perceptions of parties positioned and seemed much more biased as a result. The CBC federal one which I believe was partnered with vote compass only gave you liberal as a best fit because of how far off center the PC and NDP were.

I think that this version of vote compass does a good job of answering the question of which party best fits my vision based on what they say they are going to do.

Then trustworthyness can be evaluated subjectively.

[Bunk]

May be time for the first poll on vote intention.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Man.. imagine if all the people who align with the Alberta Party actually voted for the Alberta Party instead of viewing it as a throw away vote.

That's a problem of their own (AP's) making:

Originally Posted by nik-

The Alberta Party's public outreach has been very poor. I'm willing to bet most people don't even know they exist.

My thoughts as well. The UCP and the NDP are very in-your-face right now. The Alberta Party isn't, and they need to change that if they're going to become a contender. Even the Wildrose Party had that figured out. It's how they split the conservative vote in the first place that led to the NDP winning the election.

NDP and Alberta Party were my top two. Freedom Party was at the bottom.

[Bonded]

I might actually vote Alberta Party

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Man.. imagine if all the people who align with the Alberta Party actually voted for the Alberta Party instead of viewing it as a throw away vote.

They need to get some advertising out. I honestly didn't consider them until the vote compass tool.