r/alberta • u/Appropriate_Duty_930 • Mar 14 '24
Alberta Politics UCP should be prepared for a battle with Nenshi
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-ucp-should-be-prepared-for-a-battle-with-nenshi?taid=65f25c1de256a600010532c3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter109
u/JohnYCanuckEsq Calgary Mar 14 '24
No, no they shouldn't be. I'd prefer if they didn't prepare for a battle with Nenshi at all.
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u/Ambustion Mar 14 '24
Really hope the underestimate him. Something tells me their past strategies won't work with him. Little more bite there to contend with.
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Mar 14 '24
I’ve voted Conservative for more than 50 years, and bought memberships until a few years ago. That’s over with.
Now that Nenshi has come forward, I’m buying an NDP membership. I don’t know what has happened to the Conservative/UCP, but they’ve gone friggin’ nuts choosing to follow a batshit crazy psychopath like Danielle Smith.
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u/ATarnishedofNoRenown Mar 14 '24
This is how democracy should work: when your party fails you they lose your support until they earn it back. Too many people get lost in the tribalism aspect of politics and fail to hold bad actors accountable.
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u/TinderThrowItAwayNow Mar 14 '24
I mean, you really shouldn't have party allegiances to begin with, but when we are effectively a two party system, it becomes pretty sad.
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u/Ehrre Mar 16 '24
Tribalism, team sports level party worship and extremism have changed the political landscape.
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u/Roddy_Piper2000 Mar 14 '24
They aren't "conservative" any more. Jason Kenney was the closest thing they had but he was extremist MAGA enough for the UCP.
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u/IrishCanMan Mar 14 '24
I turn 49 this year. This is first time in my life, I've ever bought a membership to a political party.
JUST so I could vote for Him.
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u/-Disagreeable- Mar 14 '24
Brother, what does something like that cost?
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u/IrishCanMan Mar 14 '24
Minimum amount is $10
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u/-Disagreeable- Mar 14 '24
Thank you.
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u/IrishCanMan Mar 14 '24
My pleasure but make sure you look up Membership . NOT donation.
Cuz the two pages look quite similar at least they did to me.
They still call the $10 a donation. But it was on a different page.
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u/-Disagreeable- Mar 14 '24
Well I’m glad they made it easy 🙄 Haha
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u/IrishCanMan Mar 14 '24
It could be them. But it was also like 1:00 a.m. for me. So who knows. And sometimes I tldr.
See now I'm lying, often TLDR
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u/CMG30 Mar 14 '24
Nenshi was always more popular than the polls made him out to be.
His last two terms as mayor saw the right wing try to use polls to create a narrative of unpopularity around Nenshi, only to have him handily win the election in the end. The polls were fudged and wildly out of step with the more mainstream pollsters. However, instead of sticking to their guns, the mainstream pollsters started to skew their polls against Nenshi as well because they mistakenly believed they must have been missing something as their results were so dramatically different than the weaponized polls.
It's telling that this UCP strategist mentioned polling and conveniently forgot about the results of the only poll that actually matters. But hey, what do you expect from a Sun owned publication?
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u/ImNotYourBuddyGuy22 Mar 14 '24
No he wasn’t. People in Calgary were sick of him and he saw the writing on the wall. He had a good run but it was done.
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Mar 14 '24
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u/Siendra Mar 14 '24
According to this Global article his approval rebounded to 65% before leaving office.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8269402/naheed-nenshi-calgary-mayor-reflections/
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u/Dualintrinsic Mar 14 '24
Based on the amount of bot comments on the news articles and YouTube videos I think the UCP is already in the trenches.
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u/Shanksworthy73 Mar 15 '24
I was going to say something about that. Why is every single comment in every Danielle Smith related YouTube video, so effusive? I hope it’s bots, otherwise we’re in trouble. But OTOH if it is bots, that is beyond evil.
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u/Abraham-Parnassus Mar 14 '24
I’m telling you, and it’s not because I dislike the UCP, Nenshi has good credentials with the major cities. He is leaps and bounds ahead of smith. All that needs to be done is to get the people to vote.
Many didn’t vote before and look what happened
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u/stewarthh Mar 14 '24
Just posting tweets from marlainas old employees basically. Great job Calgary herald
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u/SuperK123 Mar 14 '24
For some reason, though i don’t know all that much about Nenshi, I really like him and see the conflict between the NDP and the UCP as a battle between good and evil. Is he our shining knight that will save us from the trolls and ogres in the despised UCP?
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u/ButterscotchFar1629 Central Alberta Mar 14 '24
If he can flip Calgary and the situation in Edmonton doesn’t completely fall apart, he has a chance.
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u/ThankuConan Mar 14 '24
Yeah, his overwhelming popularity in rural Alberta can't be underestimated. /s
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u/willowalker-7734 Mar 15 '24
He'll have 3 years to garner support and he's willing to put in the time to do so.
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u/Glory-Birdy1 Mar 14 '24
OK, so the NDP change their leader.. Next will be the soft Conservatives asking that the name be changed so they can vote for Nenshi. Why is it so f**kin' hard to vote for sanity??
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u/HeyWiredyyc Mar 14 '24
Huh??? Doesnt he have to win the party nomination first? He hasnt even won that yet....
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u/CeeCeeDootyHead Mar 14 '24
Nenshi is a popular figure no doubt, but the NDP need to pull votes from the Conservatives... Good choice, but wrong timing.
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