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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Canadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Trent Wotherspoon
And on wards to Trent Wotherspoon. Trent continues to gather endorsements from both former candidates, caucus members, and party members. Among the ‘featured’ endorsements would be that from Glenn Hagel, LINK, though you can look at all of the endorsements that are flowing in by heading to the campaign website.
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
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Some Notes on the Rosetown Debate
Video Link: LINK As promised, the party has put up the video link for the Rosetown debate, so we’re going to talk a little about it. As pointed out during the debate this debate took place in a rural area of Saskatchewan, as such the bulk of the conversation focused
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The most significant news from the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign this week was the release of another month’s worth of financial reports. And the December numbers look to reinforce rather than change the existing financial picture, with Ryan Meili posting strong gross and net numbers, Trent Wotherspoon spending enough to
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Financial Reports: LINK Another month in the leadership campaign down means another chance to take a look at some financial report numbers. Obviously, the big story coming out of the most recent pack of numbers is the tremendous month that Ryan Meili’s campaign had for December. Ryan has consistently led
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Candidate Rankings – January 15, 2013
Following up on yesterday’s introductory post, here are my first candidate rankings for the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race. 1. Ryan Meili (–) Lest there be any doubt, there’s still plenty of guesswork involved in trying to rank where the candidates stand: the lone poll we’ve seen during the course of
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With the holiday break now over, we can likely expect a steady stream of news from Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign until the March convention. So let’s take a look at a few developments from the past week. – While it’s still not clear how much progress Cam Broten has made
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Candidate Update – Trent Wotherspoon
Let’s close my mid-campaign updates with a look at Trent Wotherspoon – who started the campaign trying to lock in an image to swing the race in his favour, but looks instead to have generated the widest range of possible outcomes as the campaign kicks into high gear. Wotherspoon’s campaign
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Candidate Update – Erin Weir
As the candidate with the least name recognition in a field consisting of the 2009 Saskatchewan NDP leadership runner-up and two multi-term MLAs, Erin Weir has spent much of the ongoing leadership campaign working on being seen as a contender within the field, rather than being ignored an also-ran. And
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