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Lawrence LeDuc says the Alberta election was always a lot more volatile than the coverage suggested.


Misleading poll numbers masked how Wildrose ‘gaffes’ drove away voters: political analysts

Apr 24, 2012

…Experts said misleading poll numbers masked the final-week gaffes that spooked voters away from the Torier-than-thou Wildrose Alliance Party.

Lawrence LeDuc, an expert on Canadian politics at the University of Toronto, said the election was always a lot more volatile than the coverage suggested.

“There isn’t just one explanation for the result,” he said. “Voter turnout, strategic voting and the gaffes all probably contributed. But we’ll never know with any certainty how much each one mattered.”

Read the full article on The National Post online.

Filed under Press by Political Science on April 25, 2012

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