Two new polls to report in Alberta.<\/p>\n
First up comes the latest from Janet Brown<\/a>, who has earned a solid reputation for projecting Alberta elections:<\/p>\n PC 40% I feel badly for Brown on this one, since this poll was in field the week before<\/em> Stelmach resigned. A 900 sample survey isn’t cheap, and with the oil hitting the fan<\/a> right afterwards, the poll loses a lot of its value. But, hey, at least we know the PCs were doing fine, even with Ed at the helm.<\/p>\n Luckily, Environics<\/a> was in field both before and after all the craziness<\/a>. Their conclusion? It didn’t change a heck of a lot. They didn’t notice an immediate shift in support one way or the other.<\/p>\n PC 38% Numbers like this have a tendency to get spun as “bad news” for all parties involved, so let me play the optimist for a change. The PCs are comfortably in front, likely in majority territory. The Alliance are a solid second despite most Albertans knowing little about them or their charismatic leader. The Liberals are down, but if they can get their standard 25-30%, they’ll make major seat gains due to the right wing vote split. The NDP are holding their ground, and could make inroads against a weak Liberal Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two new polls to report in Alberta. First up comes the latest from Janet Brown, who has earned a solid reputation for projecting Alberta elections: PC 40%WAP 33%ALP 19%NDP 8%AP 0.1% I feel badly for Brown on this one, since this poll was in field the week before Stelmach resigned. A 900 sample survey isn’t […]<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861"}],"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=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
WAP 33%
ALP 19%
NDP 8%
AP 0.1%<\/p>\n
WAP 26%
ALP 22%
NDP 10%<\/p>\n