*Sigh*

Well, even with all the grumbling and supposed unhappiness with the province's leadership... the people of AB handed the Tories yet another majority... and an even bigger majority than they had going into the election. Oh well, what can you do.

I heard a couple interesting things during the election coverage last night: voter turn out tends to be really, really low in AB (the lowest in the country, I believe) and the analysts brought up two reasons:

1. In a province where the Tories have been in power for 11 terms / 37 years (most of which have been very crushing defeats for the opposition), many people do not see a point in going out and voting as they feel their vote has no power (I can see where people are coming from... the person I voted for last night came in dead last in our riding).

2. There are a lot of people that move to AB for work and thus are from other parts of the country. These people haven't formed an attachment to the province and thus don't vote.

If the people in both those groups had voted last night, the results may have been very different. But, that's life in AB.

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Logan and I have a bunch of running around to do today - including swim lesson #2 and possibly a visit to cousin Ava (Logan has the sniffles, so I'll call first and see if my sister wants me to come over or stay away).

Oh... in other news... my Dad got a promotion. Involved with this promotion is getting a driver's license for Saudi Arabia and driving from rig to rig supervising. I really hope he is careful when he's driving. Basically, if you hurt a native of the country your ass will end up in jail no matter who's fault it was because you're a foreigner. Be careful Dad!