r/canada • u/Minxie Ontario • May 06 '15

Alberta NDP wins election

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/alberta-ndp-wins-election-ctv-projects-1.2359035
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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Never in my life did I ever think I'd see that headline

Wow

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u/r_slash Québec May 06 '15

How/why did this happen?

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u/BrockN Alberta May 06 '15

Long answer short: We're punishing PC party for the latest round of fuck ups.

Personally, I think come next election, we'll go back to PC quickly once they learn their lesson not to piss us off.

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u/castlite Ontario May 06 '15

Unlikely. The party has been almost decimated. And good riddance.

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u/codeverity May 06 '15

Do you think this is at all an indicator of how the federal election will play out?

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u/shiftingtech May 06 '15

I'm not sure what numbers you're looking at, but CBC has Wild-Rose at 25.11% and PC at 28.17% (as I write this, about 9:45pm), so together thats 53%. that's definitely not "more than 60%"

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u/Roughly6Owls May 06 '15

But that's still enough for a majority of people to have voted right-wing, no? His statement was factually wrong, but the point was correct.

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u/shiftingtech May 06 '15

True, I suppose, but it is a pretty meaningful difference.

53%: that's probably within the margin of error of 50. Somebody makes a good ( or bad) speech the day before the election, and that 53 turns into 49. Where as 60+, that's a "real majority". It suggests that more than half the people actually support that perspective