Welcome to the race for the leadership of the federal NDP.And before you launch into your campaign, you would do well to ponder the campaign strategies devised for two recent success stories in Alberta by Stephen Carter.This is a summary of his w…
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Impolitical: Nice platform if you can get it
Here’s Brian Topp’s latest blog post in the Globe: “Canada must ensure it tightens the right belts.”I’m sure his fellow leadership candidates, declared and as yet undeclared, love the fact that Topp has a national platform like this. Is there any limit…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP will lose ground in Quebec under Topp and gain under Mulcair – Angus-Reid poll
Some very bad news for the NDP in the latest Angus-Reid poll. That sound you hear in the background is the clucking of the chickens coming home to roost:Most Canadian voters are standing by their choices in the May 2011 election, but the survey shows t…
Continue readingLet’s Get Dewar Some Support. Use Hashtag #PD4NDPL
I don’t know if one has been created yet, but I want to get a Twitter hashtag going for a “Draft Paul” campaign, as also called for from Dawg’s Blog. I think it’s imperative that we get Paul Dewar into the NDP leadership R…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: How long before Quebeckers start feeling unloved by the NDP?
We seem to be witnessing the parade of the emperor without any clothes, as the leadership campaign to replace Jack Layton gets underway. If you are inside the NDP, it seems that you see the emperor garbed in shining gold cloth, with a crown reflecting …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Rex Murphy: NDP leadership election rules are "suicide"
The latest voice to chime in on the questionable leadership rules for the NDP is that gravelly-voiced prophet of doom, Rex Murphy.Known for his incisive and opinionated views on Canadian politics and politicians, Murphy has made a career of being strai…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: It’s bad enough the NDP are letting other candidates run
September 2nd: Thomas Mulcair says he won’t run for the leadership of the NDP unless the party agrees to hold its convention in late winter or early spring, because he wouldn’t be able to compete in a short race.September 19th: [Muclair] told reporters…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: On Topp
I find the media generally tends to assign too much importance to endorsements during leadership races. After all, Christy Clark came out on top in BC earlier this year with a lone MLA backing her.But some endorsements do mater. And since Olivia Chow h…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Race for Stornoway
The rules have been set. The NDP will select their next leader March 24th in Toronto. The entry fee will be $15,000, with a $500,000 spending limit. It will be one-member-one-vote, and unions will no longer receive a set percentage of the vote.Not that…
Continue readingImpolitical: The parameters
The NDP leadership selection rules were canvassed by Kady O’Malley yesterday: …aside from ensuring that every single active, card-carrying member of the party has the right to cast a ballot, and that the winner is eventually chosen with no less than …
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