In the most noteworthy leadership development of the past few days, Praxis Analytics has released the first set of public poll results since last fall – with a couple of interesting findings. First, there’s the fact that nearly two-thirds of respondents (in a poll of the general public) couldn’t name
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Accidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Candidate Rankings – February 12
As I mentioned in my follow-up notes from Saturday’s Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate, the candidates’ performance hasn’t done much to change my impression as to their relative position. (Which, as a reminder, is different from my personal endorsement.) But there have been a couple of additional indicators over the past
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Ryan’s Website: http://www.ryanmei.li/democratic_renewal Best laid plans…No discussion of the debates for now, due to losing the bulk of my weekend. So, we will talk a bit about Ryan’s democratic renewal statement. In keeping with our newest way of covering these items, the link above will take you to the release
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Regina Debate II Notes
Since I was one of many who attended yesterday’s leadership debate in person, I won’t wait for the video to be posted before discussing it. (For some of the play-by-play, see live-tweeting from SKYoungNewDemocrats in particular, as well as a bevy of others using the #skndpldr hashtag.) All four candidates’
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Not surprisingly, the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaigns look to be focused entirely on their efforts to get out the vote now that the voting window has opened. And so aside from a few additional endorsements all around and some jostling for position in the early voting, there hasn’t been much
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Editorial Content: Some Loose Thoughts
As this race has gone on, I thought it would become more and more clear which candidate I would get behind. As of this posting, that still remains and elusive and difficult decision. There’s no doubt that we have a fine slate of candidates in Erin Weir, Ryan Meili, Cam
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – The Endorsement
As I’ve mentioned before, we can expect the bulk of the votes cast in Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership election to be cast before the convention next month – and over the past day, I’ve seen plenty of comments to the effect that members are receiving their mail-in ballots. So I’ll take
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Candidate Rankings – February 5
Once again, there’s been relatively little to shift the respective rankings of Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. So I’ll use this post to point out a few points of interest which haven’t yet made it into roundup posts. 1. Ryan Meili (1) I haven’t spent much time assessing the choice of
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Due to some increased time constraints on my schedule, we’re going to modify the way the blog reports on some of the campaign announcements. Up until now I’ve put the details of the plans release on this page, while also providing a link to the announcements. We’re going to simplify,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Battlefords Debate Notes
With Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership candidates figuring to be thoroughly familiar with each other and the party’s debate format, one might have expected little new to emerge from the Battlefords leadership debate. But instead, it offered some novel subject matter for the candidates to discuss – and the candidates’ reactions to
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As expected, the last week has been a relatively quiet one in the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign – representing the break between membership recruitment and voter contact. But there have been a few developments worth noting. Most obviously, the latest debate took place in Yorkton. Scott has already posted his
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Notes on the Yorkton Debate
It would seem my own prophecy has come to fruition, as here we are about to talk about the Yorkton Debate before getting to some of the ones that have come before it. The candidates were their usual selves this evening, as they continued to hammer home the key messages
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On voter pools
Yesterday’s announcement of the membership numbers for the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race gives us some indication as to how the rest of the campaign will play out. But let’s put the final membership number in context. First of all, the oft-mentioned 35% increase over the party’s 2012 numbers is bound
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Candidate Rankings – January 29
At the best of times, what’s visible and accessible to the public makes for only a relatively small part of a leadership campaign’s work. But that goes doubly over the course of a week featuring a membership deadline with no corresponding announcement of the results. With that in mind, we
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One of the more important dates of the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign passed yesterday, as the membership deadline will close the list of members eligible to vote for the party’s next leader. We’ll find out the official numbers before too long, but for now two of the campaigns have given
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: General Posting
A quick moment to take a look at what the candidates have been up to and any major events that have come out in the last couple of weeks. I’m working on a post for the latest debate, though at this rate, I may have one for the Yorkton debate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Weyburn Debate Notes
In principle, we might have expected the first debate after the holiday break to signal any change in direction from Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. But it was instead the Weyburn debate which saw a couple of significant changes in tone and strategy (on top of the usual number of noteworthy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Candidate Rankings – January 22
Not surprisingly, there’s relatively little change in this week’s rankings: there have been relatively few new developments, and the most significant ones have mostly reinforced the candidates’ current placements. 1. Ryan Meili (1) Meili’s December fund-raising success ensured that his top ranking wouldn’t be in jeopardy. But the most important
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This past weekend saw another Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate, this time in Weyburn. But oddly enough (particularly given the presence of some of the most active social media presences in the campaign), Saturday’s debate was the first not to be covered live at the time – meaning that the best
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Rosetown Debate Notes
As Scott has already noted, the first Saskatchewan NDP leadership forum of 2013 saw plenty of familiar themes – particularly in the prepared speeches and the audience questions. But the candidate questions took a couple of interesting turns. The first candidate question went to Weir, and he used both of
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