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The Shotgun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christmas has come early for Danielle Smith and the Wildrose Alliance. In Red Deer on Saturday night, Alberta Progressive Conservative party members voted 77.4% in favour Premier Ed Stelmach’s continued leadership of the party. According to a report in the...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, according to the Edmonton Sun. In reality, Stelmach comes in at 77.4%, right below the 78% I'd predicted . So what does it mean? Well, it's humbling for a man who won 72 of 83 seats just a year and a half ago. But it's certainly enough for Stelmach to stay on as leader. The ambiguous leadership review zone is usually in the high 60s - Clark stayed with 66.5% in '81 and quit with 66.9% in '83,...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With Ed Stelmach's leadership review vote coming up tomorrow (I'll be sure to post the results, and offer analysis, as soon as the numbers hit Twitter), this is certainly not welcome news for the embattled Premier: Across the province, 34 per cent of decided voters say they support the Tories, down from 55 per cent a year ago. The Wildrose party, under new leader Danielle Smith, is now...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With Ed Stelmach's leadership review vote coming up tomorrow (I'll be sure to post the results, and offer analysis, as soon as the numbers hit Twitter), this is certainly not welcome news for the embatled Premier: Across the province, 34 per cent of decided voters say they support the Tories, down from 55 per cent a year ago. The Wildrose party, under new leader Danielle Smith, is now...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... were held today, compared to 28 per cent for the fledgling Wildrose Alliance and new leader Danielle Smith. David Swann's Liberals are in third, with the backing of 20 per cent of voters, followed by Brian Mason's NDP at nine per cent and the recently delisted Green party at eight per cent. Stelmach's Tories have slipped 21 points in the polls over the last year and it's the PCs'...
The News Cruncher (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Proof that Danielle Smith was the right and only choice for leader of the Wildrose Alliance: An independent survey of 1,000 adult Albertans (840 decided voters) conducted by Environics, and provided exclusively to the Calgary Herald, reveals the Wildrose Alliance party has firmly cemented itself in second place provincewide -- and has passed the Tories as the favoured party in Calgary....
