People do view the Tories as a part of Alberta and even those who dislike them said to themselves on Monday, “Aw they will win anyways.”

The reality is no one knows because the vote total was atrocious. The hard fact is unless you install an Australian style of mandidatory voting people in good times just do not care about politics.

As two different political people from different sides of the fence told me.

“You cannot kill Santa Claus.”

“If I have a job, an SUV/Truck parked in my garage and I am not suffering any real set back why would I care?”

The reality is Kevin Taft was too eggheaded and was not going to connect with people in Alberta that like their leaders a little down home.

The only way anyone is going to take the Tories out is to have a Charismatic leader, be just about the same in policy and have coalessed the majority of the opposition behind them.

The Liberals could do that as long as they change their name and get a leader who is like Lawrence Decore or Peter Lougheed, dynamic, fresh but safe.

I don’t know about that Kim, I was told yesterday by an evangelical Christian that the Rapture is due soon – within the next 50 years, he claims.

Think we have 50 years worth of oil in that sand?

I don’t think job stability should come at a cost of housing and infrastructure, for example. I certainly don’t think a government should focus on job stability in only one sector.

Many of the problems plaguing Alberta today are a direct result of uncontrolled growth in the oil sands driven by greed to fill provincial coffers. Had the growth been controlled so it was sustainable, we’d have fewer housing issues, fewer commercial space issues in Calgary, fewer infrastructure issues, and less of a worker shortage. We’d also have more long-term funding from royalties, and we would have been able to focus on diversifying the economy. The oil’s not going to be there forever.

If your employment was in an industry where the current government meant more job stability instead of less, would you have a different outlook?

Then I’d have to triple my $500 mortgage payment and increase my 10-minute commute. :)

Re: 6

That’s the problem. It isn’t just about the seats. Sure they won 10 or so more seats. But the number of seats is irrelevant to voter opinion. They won those seats because the other half who voted couldn’t agree on who to pick as an alternative.

It’d be interesting to see what the results would have been if we had an MMP system.

Progressive Conservative 72 seats
Liberal 9 seats
New Democratic Party 2 seats
Wildrose Alliance 0 seats

I was sorry the Wildrose Alliance didn’t make a little more headway.

As for your job – I suppose that’s how people usually look at politics – what is best for me, not for the good of the whole. That being said, is U of L cutting back? I thought school’s funding was being increased.