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Originally Posted by Cage
The Conservative Candidate has won with over 55% support. In Richardson days he got closer to 60%. I don't see how combining opposition forces would change the result.
Only way to get a non Conservative into Calgary Centre is to get Nenshi to run for office and be a member of the NDP or Liberals.
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By-elections are different, and this is why:
In a normal election, you are also voting for who will be the PM. Let us say that someone wants Stephen Harper for PM and that person lives in Varsity. They vote for Rob Anders, and in this hypothetical case, don't actually like how Rob has represented them over the last many years (this is just hypothetical) but still vote for him because they like Harper. In a by-election, no one is voting for who they'd like to be PM and thus the above doesn't apply. It is thus quite possible that more people might not vote Conservative as in a regular election, precisely because the leadership of the country is not being voted on. The individual's thought process, therefore, may more be focused on the actual candidates.
Lately, the NDP are being just as ideologically driven as the right wing, so I'm curious what happens in the Liberal nomination race. I'm also curious what provincial MLAs have to say (most likely will keep tight lipped, but we can hope) given that the Federal Conservatives really aligned with the Wildrose Alliance during the provincial race.
Calgary-Centre, for the above reasons, might be a very interesting race.