{"id":2459,"date":"2009-10-23T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2009-10-23T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T11:52:00","slug":"this-week-in-alberta-what-have-you-done-for-me-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Alberta – What Have You Done For Me Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media focus has shifted away from Danielle Smith’s Wildrose leadership victory<\/a>, onto Ed Stelmach’s November 7th leadership review. The latest? Alan Hallman has come forward<\/a> suggesting Stelmach has been a failure and should be replaced. And, as Jim Dinning’s 2006 leadership campaign manager, Hallman is certainly an expert on the topic of political failure.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Stelmach picked up 10 new seats, winning 72 of 83 seats the last election, his first. And his party wants him out<\/em>? Because they’re worried about a party that has never held more than 1 seat in legislature<\/em>? I know, I know…Alberta politics is difficult to understand.<\/p>\n

With few connections in the PCs, any predictions I could make about Stelmach’s fate would be a shot in the dark – so I’ll take that shot and say Ed gets about 70% and stays on.<\/p>\n

SPEAKING OF WHICH…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Danielle Smith (little known fact: Danielle was runner-up to Obama for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize<\/em>) appears to be targeting Calgary North Hill<\/a> as the riding she wants to run in next election (sorry Kyle!).<\/p>\n

2008 Northhill Results <\/strong>
Kyle Fawcett 4,292 (PC) 37.94%
Pat Murray 3,589 (ALP) 31.72%
John Chan 1,490 (NDP) 13.17%
Jane Morgan 977 (WRA) 8.64%
Kevin Maloney 736 (GP) 6.51%
Jim Wright 229 (SC) 2.02%<\/p>\n

The riding would appear to be a bit more left-leaning than Glenmore<\/a>, with a slim majority of the riding voting for the Liberals, NDP, or Greens last election. That means that even if Smith converts half the PC vote and maintains the WRA\/SC base, she might still fall short of the Liberals (especially if some of the Green vote drifts to Swann now that the Alberta Greens have been deregistered).<\/p>\n

Still, voter turn-out was so embarrassingly low last election that it’s risky to do math like that, especially when Smith herself could be a game changer. The bottom line is that this is a riding that can be won with 35% of the vote, and if Smith can’t clear that hurdle in her home riding, then we’re all wasting a lot of time talking about her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The media focus has shifted away from Danielle Smith’s Wildrose leadership victory, onto Ed Stelmach’s November 7th leadership review. The latest? Alan Hallman has come forward suggesting Stelmach has been a failure and should be replaced. And, as Jim Dinning’s 2006 leadership campaign manager, Hallman is certainly an expert on the topic of political failure. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}