Thanks god. I wonder how many of my Alberta friends had to swallow hard when voting for the PC's to counteract the WRP votes. I found it really odd to be happy to see such a huge PC majority forming last night during the vote count. Crazy shit.
Probably very few. Redford one a stronger majority than Klein's first. That cannot happen in the face of a competing right wing party in this province without deep seated party loyalty - there isn't any disputing that, but you have to be from here with a loyalty to the PCs to understand. This was an election in a boom. Everybody has a job, everybody's job is paying well, people who are starting businesses and not leveraging themselves out of work are doing great, we don't have any debt, our students rank amongst the best in the world, our health care system is awesome outside of the major urban centers, and there's an abundance of just about everything a guy could think of. Right now in Alberta it's pretty much impossible to be a fuck up, unless you tinker with drugs, and Redford's continued funding of community action programs in Edmonton is proving very successful in dealing with that aspect of our culture - finally, we've got somebody that doesn't just ship them to you. People don't vote with their head in the sand here.
Big loser in the election are the pollsters.
So what effect did the bus have on the election?
The polls were only targeting disgruntled or stupid people - why? Because when people who are happy with the government get a call, it's usually at a time when they're busy with work or play, and they just hang up. Even stupider are the Newspapers who believed them. The PC party had internal projections predicting almost exactly this make up of the Assembly… media polls are garbage - and the Wildrose are dirty.
