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Originally Posted by 240glt
The only decisive win I see in the four contests is Calgary Foothills. In Elbow the PC's only garnered 33% of the popular vote, Calgary West was a virtual tie between PC and WRP, and given how popular Dave Hancock was in Edmonton Whitemud, Mandel's capture of only 42% is not a great showing for that riding.
Pundits' calling for "soul searching" on behalf of the other parties after these results are being lazy, not recognizing that these results are not a good showing for the PC's
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The only thing that counts in the end is a win. Soul searching over not running up the total? Forget it. If the Wildrose can't win in suburbia, with a star candidate, against an unknown quantity, where can they? If they can't win a riding like west, it is pretty nearly impossible to form government.
Can they really expected to be accorded the status of a government in waiting on the ascent for the next 18 months? I don't really think so.