Not really applicable to provincial politics. The dynamics in Alberta are different then the national experience of Mr. Harper and the Conservative party. The P.C.s were booted out for reasons of the tiredness of the message plus it was simply time to try something else. I know its sacrilege to say something good about the NDP but they have been successful in keeping the economy from collapsing at the cost of much debt. The NDP are not dummies. It will be interesting to see how they compete for votes.