I disagree, the cons have been in power for like 40 years or something like that, yet no Albertan conservative leader in modern history has lasted a full term. Speaks to the level of disfunction both within and outside the party, imo. This province has Stockholm syndrome though, and thinks that anything but blue is the devil. I vote blue because my pappy told me too, and all that other nonsense.

I struggle to think how the NDP fucked up the province in one term, if anything they were handed a shit sandwich economically, as the oil prices bombed just before they got in. Navigated the storm as good as anyone could be reasonably expected to. If the UCP was in power then, they’d just be smoke and mirroring you about how bad it was and how they did the best they could. I’m saying this neutrally too, like if the cons weren’t so fucking gross in this province, I actually tend to be smack in the centre on many items. But man Alberta has had some conservative characters…