GUNTER: Despite tight polls, UCP unlikely to be unseated by NDP in upcoming election
There are only two things that threaten right-of-centre majority government in Alberta — stay-home voters and vote-splitting.
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There are only two things that threaten right-of-centre majority government in Alberta — stay-home voters and vote-splitting.
There are only two things that threaten right-of-centre majority government in Alberta — stay-home voters and vote-splitting.
Every single general election in Alberta has produced a big majority for the winning party. A close election could bring down Danielle Smith
Kenney, Smith, and the UCP are the symptom of a failure of Alberta’s entrenched political class to deal with the province’s deeper problems. This failure takes the form of demands that the Alberta state be given more power; that is, that those who have held power in the province going on forty years be given even more power. But nothing ever changes.
It can’t get much more exciting in Pulaski County than Willie Nelson and wild hogs – unless you throw in Humvees and the promise of some new liquor stores.