Early morning after the night before

Well I am going to record Sunday Magazine on CKUA this morning after a hectic night where I played the role of media guy.

First my impressions - that was absolutely stunning night. I think faced with going to the left or the right the party choose the fence. The interesting thing to me was watching Dinning supporters at the event who started cheering a lot at the beginning of the night faded as the news got worse and worse for their guy.

You know when the Second place candidates fans are roaring every time the new stat came up with them staying in second that it was not going to be Jim's night.

The other surprise to me was the amazing amount of times Stelmach would get huge numbers in a poll that gave him like 700-1000 more votes while Ted was getting about 200-300 vote leads in southern Alberta.

I knew then that Steady Eddie had it.

Observations:

Ed's people were loud and boistrous. The certainly turned out for this one.

Dinning was carried around by his supporters when he came in but you could tell it was false bravado, no one really though Morton's second place votes would fall to him.

Rick Bell was eager to talk to Morton Bloggers after Ted failed to get results and he still is the "Dinger" in my books.

Nobody thought Ed would win the second ballot, that was the biggest shock. Winning the third was entirely likely but the second one was absolutely amazing.

Kevin Taft showed up and I have to say invited (by TV) or not it was incredibly poor taste.

Like Link Byfield I think it is time to give Premier Ed the chance and see what he can do. If he comes our way a bit that is a good thing. If not... well then there are still other alternatives.