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|    Why Albertans should stop voting Conserv    |
|    18 Oct 19 19:32:52    |
      Why Albertans should stop voting Conservative                     Max Fawcett: If Albertans want the rest of Canada to take their issues more       seriously, they’ll have to do something even more radical than pushing for       separation . . . stop voting Conservative              [---]              It’s been 70 years since Alberta’s federal seats were up for grabs, when       Social Credit and the Liberals ended up with 37.4 per cent and 33.8 per cent       of the vote, respectively. Since then, there have only been three occasions       where Alberta sent more        than three non-Conservative MPs to Ottawa: four in 1968, four again in 1993,       and a whopping five in 2015. Other than that, it’s been blue wave after       blue wave, with Conservatives routinely pulling more than 60 per cent of the       popular vote.              The odds of Albertans actually voting strategically in this fall’s election       and putting the province’s federal Conservatives on notice are about the       same as Maxime Bernier crossing the aisle to join the Liberals. But it’s       something they might want        to start thinking seriously about.              After all, as Einstein famously observed, the definition of insanity is doing       the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. And if       recent history is any indication, voting Conservative isn’t going to get       them the results they        want.              https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/why-albertans-should-stop-voting-conservative              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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