Do Harder signs show desperation?

By Lethbridge Herald on September 1, 2021.

Editor:

I’m beginning to change my mind.

The election gets called and Rachael Harder signs start springing up along the major thoroughfares like weeds after the rain.

“O.K.” I figured “she’s got three campaigns worth of signs stacked up in a storage locker somewhere and a sign war is easier than going door knocking. 

Then I read the polls. The Tories in Alberta are down something like 20 points from the last election. Jason Kenney is down even more but that’s walking dead territory so maybe, just maybe, all those signs aren’t signs of complacency but of desperation. 

The federal Tories can read those same numbers and they’re going to be pouring funds into every yellow dog riding in the country because, you never know – those numbers means nobody in the party’s a safe bet this election.

So we see enough lawn signs to stretch from here to the Monarch overpass.

All on the public boulevards, though.

You get off the main roads and “Save Our Water and Our Healthcare and Our Education” is winning that sign war hands down.

Maybe those signs are along Mayor Magrath and Scenic because they can’t get takers on the front lawns where the voters actually live.

Just saying.

Ken Sears

Lethbridge