Ziad Aboultaif, Conservative Edmonton Manning, PhD?

Edmonton Manning

Robert Jago, aka the most dangerous blogger in Canada, points out that Ziad Aboultaif, Conservative Edmonton Manning seems to have been touting his credentials in International Business on the basis of a PhD acquired from defunct Kennedy Western University, a notorious degree mill.

Strategic voting in Edmonton Manning

Strategic voting in Edmonton Manning

Edmonton Manning is a new riding created out of parts of Edmonton-Sherwood Park, Edmonton East and Edmonton-St. Albert.

If the 2011 results of those three ridings were cast within the new riding boundaries, the results would be (link): Con (55%), NDP (27%), Lib (9%), Green (3%).

Those results should imply that the seat is relatively safe.  The results of the provincial election from last May, however, belie that assumption, since the NDP received a stunning 72.5% of the votes cast.

Recent polling suggests that the riding might still go Conservative.  An Environics poll from Sept. 16 suggests that strategic voting could make a difference.  It found that support in the riding was Con (45%), NDP (33%), Lib (18%), Green (4%).

Strategic voters in Edmonton-Manning, therefore, should vote NDP.

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