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.. well there ya go see ? now I’m depressed ..

I knew going in Kenney would ruin Alberta.. 4 bitter years comin and we wouldn’t recognize Alberta or Canada either when he was through with us.. with Danielle Smith & other parasites like David Parker for the next 4 years Alberta can evolve to be like texas.. how wonderful.. the Harper Legacy .. smartest guy in the room

f’n pitiful .. 🦎🏴‍☠️Funny things is.. Albertans won’t be Canadians.. will have their own Alberta Passport, will not have a Canada Pension Plan, or Canadian Old Age Plan or a Canadian Military. They won’t own First Nations Lands.. the list goes on.. amen

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“barring another Smith bozo eruption”

I have trouble imagining what sort of bozo eruption would actually imperil any of the ~40 safe UCP seats. It’s not that they are uninformed voters. They are voters who are actively uninterested in being informed.

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Looking at the polls in the last 20 days or so, I see anywhere from NDP +10 to UCP +11. This could mean two things, the preference of Alberta voters is fickle, depending on how the survey is done, you get different results. Or the pollsters have trouble finding a representative set of the population. Or both.

In any case, the error bars are too large to make any conclusions. The only conclusion is that 40 to 50% of Alberta voters are willing to consider a clearly unsuitable nut job as premier for whatever reason. That is depressing enough.

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As mentioned, the online polls in this election are problematic. Online samples don’t provide full coverage of rural areas lacking broadband internet. Today’s makeover by Abacus claims the results are within the margin of error, ignoring that non-probability surveys don’t have a margin of error.

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If Smith wins it looks like albertans will be fighting each other for the next 4 years. Smith is hard wired to fight and sets a tone for all albertans. This will be exhausting.

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