[ridenrain]

If Manatoba wants to join "the West", that's fine with me.

[TheBeav]

My point is what is "The West". How do you define it outside of geography? You can't so why so much attention is focused on it as a region in the context of politics is beyond me. Manitoba actually is much closer to Ontario in demographics, history, political attitudes and ethnic make up then Alberta.

We elect a pretty good cross section of parties in MB. Some Libs, some Cons and some NDs. I don't think we fit politically with Alberta who is basically conservative.

[grainfedprairieboy]

I would suspect that, should Conservative support actually be eroding in the West, it does not translate into a corresponding increase in Liebral support. Librano support in the west remains consistent with Eastern Canadian migration patterns. Conservative support may be evolving from the optimistically naive “west wants in” to the more pragmatic “west wants out.

http://thefirebrand.blogspot.com/2005/0 ... berta.html

[TheGup]

I'm not sure if anybody noticed this about the first poll, but it says that the people surveyed were asked to pick their two favourite parties. It seems to me that it would either be Conservative/Liberal, or NDP/Liberal, as the Liberals represent the centre of the political spectrum. Not many NDPers would consider voting Conservative, and not many Conservatives would consider voting NDP, which leaves the Liberals..This poll gives the illusion of Liberal gaining, but in reality, probably is just that...an illusion.