Friday, January 16, 2009  Alberta PC Caucus Vaults into the 21st
Century  The party of old, white men. The "Pretty Crusty" Party.
We've heard them all before - stereotypes about the "natural
ruling party" of Alberta. Like all stereotypes, they're at least
partially based on truth (or, at least the truth as it once
appeared, to at least one person).  The truth is, the Alberta
PC's have been slow to embrace Social Media. After all: What's
their motivation to do so? It's a forum in which you sacrifice
much of the control you hope to have over your message (always
dangerous for a party that sits in government over a multi-
billion dollar economy), to appeal to a mainly younger
demographic that is, let's be honest, at least as likely to vote
AGAINST you as FOR you (youth, as has been noted before, has a
notorious liberal bias). There are risks, for potentially very
little reward, and you're already winning huge majorities in the
Legislature. Why fix what isn't broken?  And then came Obama.
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