Druh farrell biography of barack obama

Stephen Carter could be excused for sleeping poorly this past April. With Danielle Smith’s Wildrose Party well ahead in the polls (by one estimate, it had a double-digit lead heading into the last week of the Alberta election), the campaign strategist and former chief of staff to Premier Alison Redford appeared close to having his name attached to one of the biggest political disasters in provincial history.

It wasn’t the narrative most political pundits—or, for that matter, Carter himself—expected. After all, he had recently helped parachute a thirty-eight-year-old Muslim policy wonk named Naheed Nenshi into the mayor’s office in Calgary; as if that weren’t enough, he then put a conspicuously progressive Conservative, Redford, in charge of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. How hard could it be to win a general election in a province where a ham sandwich bearing the PC banner would still be the automatic favourite? Very hard, as it turned out, although on election day Albertans renewed, albeit reluctantly, the Tories’ lease on power for at least one more term.

Whether this is good news for Alberta depends partly on where you sit on the political spectrum, but what of its impact on the rest of the country? Carter, you see, wants to save

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