More bad news for the Alberta Alliance and Paul Hinman yesterday.
According to this story in the Edmonton Journal, the Alliance is hemorrhaging supporters and members to the Ted Morton campaign:
The article then goes on to quote from political scientist David Taras:Ted Morton's campaign, for example, has actively recruited Alliance members, as well as other disillusioned former party members.
"Most of those people have a history in the (PC) party, or have at least supported the party," said Sam Armstrong, a spokesman for Morton. "A good proportion of them are disillusioned members who left for good reason."
Armstrong said Alliance members have been particularly receptive to Morton's message.
Morton's strategy could be effective, said David Taras, a political scientist at the University of Calgary.
"If even, say, 5,000 former Alliance people sign up, you've already altered the race."
The only problem with this is that there is nowhere near 5,000 "former Alliance people" in the province. According to this Wikipedia article on the 2005 Alberta Alliance leadership race, there are just over 1,000 voting members in the AAP.
Now, I'm sure nobody in the Alliance will have the integrity to call David Taras up and clue him in regarding the real numbers the Alberta Alliance has in terms of active members. After all, the Alberta Alliance likes to falsely portray itself as a large movement on the ascendancy, so they will gladly take advantage of this mistake since it works in favour of the canards they are continually trying to foist on the Alberta electorate.
Oh, and don't worry. I won't clue Taras in either.
Let's just keep this one to ourselves.
Shhhhhh!
