Western Standard - February 02, 2023


Poll finds UCP, NDP in tight race


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On this episode of the Western Standard, I talk about the latest poll numbers on the United Conservative Party and what it means for the upcoming election. I also talk about why the establishment is desperate to see Notley re-elected.

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00:00:00.000 In his speaking of legacy media, I mean, I saw the headlines from Don Braid with the Herald,
00:00:05.400 against all odds, Danielle Smith and the UCP might be poised to win the spring election.
00:00:10.940 No, it's against all of the effort and work you clowns have been doing for the last six months
00:00:15.080 to demonize the UCP and try and discredit Danielle Smith as much as humanly possible
00:00:20.900 to keep her from winning. That's what it's against. And yes, the votes, I mean, it shows,
00:00:27.140 at least from these polls, that it's tight. It's tight, you know, it's statistically a tie,
00:00:33.140 but looking at the balance of votes and where they land and everything, if they stay where this
00:00:37.840 pollster said they were, then the UCP would still win a narrow majority. I tell you what,
00:00:43.400 the legacy media and the establishment are going to fight tooth and nail all the way to the end on
00:00:49.420 this, all the way. They want Notley back in there and it's going to be a rough and tumble battle.
00:00:55.020 That's part of why I took my break when I did, because I tell you what, the Western standard is
00:00:58.000 going to be busy as we lead up to that election. It's going to be vitriolic and we're fighting over
00:01:03.620 some principles and concerns like we haven't seen before. The main thing with Smith and what she's
00:01:09.000 doing, she scares the crap out of them. She's actually looking to change things. That's why 1.00
00:01:14.300 they get so upset. It's not right or left, it's change they're terrified of. They got their big,
00:01:19.500 bloated, comfortable system, leave it alone, just give us more money, more money, more money,
00:01:23.560 but don't change anything. She looks like she's got the will to actually shake the tree,
00:01:29.820 to change some stuff and it's got the establishment, well, crapping bricks and sweating bullets and
00:01:36.320 the polls are starting to show though that it's coming around. Alberta are not, we're not socialists.
00:01:43.100 We don't have a vote split that happened like happened the last time Notley got in. It's not
00:01:47.300 there. People aren't as warm on Smith as they were with Kenny initially when he went in or as,
00:01:53.880 you know, past conservative leaders, but they're warming to her and they certainly still prefer
00:01:59.060 her over Notley and you don't have a second party splitting it up. As I said, right now,
00:02:03.140 the Independence Party is small and they got Arthur Pawlowski leading it. They'll have their
00:02:07.980 little niche, but they're not going to really take much, I think, on any urban seats or have much
00:02:12.180 impact at all. I mean, especially if you look at the past electoral results. In the Wilderness
00:02:15.560 Independence Party, again, they were going okay, but then they've ripped themselves to shreds with
00:02:18.880 infighting. So the UCP is the only conservative option out there. It's going to be a two-party race
00:02:23.000 and for the most part, Albertans have no interest in going back to another term of NDP.