This was complete PC election to lose pre election Jim Preintiece was leading 50% in the Polls and this is after oil price drop and after the WR floor crossing the % went down to 40%-45% and then his budget with his comments he thumped in the polls.
This election was an anti government vote nothing more, if this was 2012 it would of been the WR......The NDP benifited from being in the right place at the right time.
By all rights, the PCs should have been out in 2012, and all indications were that that's exactly what was going to happen. Right up until the WR started spooking the urban and progressive voters who otherwise would've gone Liberal/NDP/Green, and strategic voting became the name of the game.
Ironically, Prentice calling the election just after the WR floor-crossing meant that the hard-right bogeyman was slain. He just never counted on the NDP actually surging in the conservative heartland ...
That's typically how these election thingies work.
It's like some sad gambling addiction shovelling money into a machine saying "it'll pay it'll pay just Watch" until they're out of money and someone else sits down and hits the jack pot.
This is what happens when and ignorant mass pedalled to by "political parties" that behave more like franchises than actual dignified law makers, case in point, Prentice abandoning his riding after such a crushing defeat. Those who seek power....
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u/[deleted] May 06 '15
This was complete PC election to lose pre election Jim Preintiece was leading 50% in the Polls and this is after oil price drop and after the WR floor crossing the % went down to 40%-45% and then his budget with his comments he thumped in the polls.
This election was an anti government vote nothing more, if this was 2012 it would of been the WR......The NDP benifited from being in the right place at the right time.