The results are available on the group’s website.“When we use measures of actual policy positions and political values, Albertans are just as progressive as anyone else in Canada,” said political science professor Jared Wesley, who leads Common Ground.
About one in five United Conservatives preferred Notley to their own party leader. There are even New Democrats who preferred Smith to Notley, though far fewer. Just 13 per cent of NDP identifiers would be willing to have a UCP friend. Flipped, the corresponding figure is 16 per cent. A third of all Albertans disagreed with statements that politicians should concede defeat if they lose and that election rules should be agreed upon by all parties.
Duane Bratt is a political scientist at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, not part of the Common Ground team. He supports many of its findings and says there’s a “wide gap” between the parties. “There’s a sentiment, ‘screw them, they don’t think the way we do.’ There are moderates, but a lot of them lost their seats.”
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