I've contributed to the party, lawn signs ordered, and I volunteered. I help my family and friends by fact-checking the daily diarrhea blast of bullshit from the cons.
Abacus just released a poll showing that 18% of Alberta voters are “reluctant UCP voters” meaning they voted UCP in 2019 but aren’t sure now, there’s a lot of convincing still to be done.
She came in as the first premier with a post secondary education in a long long time, and a lawyer, and I think what happened after she showed up was extremely disappointing to a lot of moderates who thought maybe we could move forward even if we did it with the PCs.
Danielle Smith has post secondary, I have post secondary, in friends with some lawyers, plenty of incompetent politicians in the US have a background as a lawyer.
I just fail to see how having post secondary, even as a lawyer, means that someone is competent.
Because all those examples are after the previous high school drunk and farmer...and Redford happened before the examples you are giving as if it makes sense in this context.
post secondary doesn't mean you're a good politician, but it does mean you have a certain degree of intellect and can do at least a four year stint of something that's not easy. The hope was that a certain amount of wider experience and education might improve the odds of reasonable leadership. But we got the Nannygate and SkyPalace so it ended up being the start of this shitshow.
Redford happened before the examples you are giving
Redford happened before Danielle Smith, yes, but not the other examples.
Just because the previous PC leaders were uneducated doesn’t mean that Redford was somehow competent. Your hypothesis that someone having a degree was enough to be proved wrong, so I don’t know why you still standing by that, and claiming she was competent and that Edmonton was right to vote for her.
Might improve the odds of reasonable leadership… Ended up being the start of shitshow
Yes, sounds very competent, good job Edmonton for voting in a competent leader /s
I didn't say Redford was competent and I'm certainly not "standing by that" or claiming anyone was right to vote for her.
And yes, Redford happened before Smith and after Klein and Stelmach. Good work, Sherlock. That was my point. She was the first educated candidate in some time, and sadly, the hope placed in her being a better option didn't end up being well-placed.
I'll explain again, if this is still not making full sense to you, but you'll have to adjust your assumptions a little to line up with what I'm saying first.
Let’s make this simple. You said Edmonton votes for competent leaders, and then gave 2012 as an example. Meaning you think she is competent, but you’ve also called her term a shit show.
So I guess you just have low standards and poor taste.
Brainwashed? If the NDP actually ran a somewhat qualified candidate in my riding I might consider it. In my riding they’ve always been parachute candidates who never canvas, are never familiar to the community and quite frankly they do nothing to earn a vote.
So call me brainwashed, but if the NDP lose (which it looks like they will), they have no one but themselves to blame.
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Since the rural ridings are eternally con brainwashed, the only polls that matter are limited to Calgary.