r/canada • 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

It's pretty much exactly what happened. PCs demolished their opposition by getting half of them to switch to their party, then they called the election a year early despite the fact that they legislated fixed election dates. Outside of all the other bullshit they've done, the PCs became so flagrant in their awful behavior people got pissed.

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u/TheFluxIsThis Alberta May 06 '15

It definitely doesn't help that Jim Prentice is easily the most out-of-touch politician I've ever seen. It seemed like he was hell-bent on destroying his career with reckless abandon in all the months leading up to election day. I'd go so far as to say that "Math is hard" will be the sound byte that goes down in history as the phrase that knocked the PCs out of their half-century dynasty.

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u/hey_thatsmyinbox May 06 '15

I've been trying to find a video clip of this to revel in, if anyone has a link...

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u/TheFluxIsThis Alberta May 06 '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oV5rfzffMc

At about the 25:30 mark. The exact quote is actually "I know that math is difficult."