{"id":601,"date":"2012-03-15T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=601"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"the-wildrose-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/the-wildrose-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wildrose challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Wildrose challenge\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Danielle Smith, leader of the Wildrose Alliance, spoke to the students in the Polling and Opinion Research course.&nbsp;With the Alberta provincial election expected&nbsp;in only a few&nbsp;weeks,&nbsp;she talked about the challenges of starting a grassroots political organization and&nbsp;running against&nbsp;a political party which has been in power for more than four decades. She stresed the importance of having a team of qualified people around her and told the students that despite the rise of social media and new technologies, voters continue to want to hear about policies and ideas. Moreover,&nbsp;she believes that campaigns cannot replace the human dimension of politics with technology. Leaders and candidates need to shake hands and meet with voters, and assembling a dedicated team of volunteers&nbsp;continues to be the more effective way to&nbsp;win elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Smith, leader of the Wildrose Alliance, spoke to the students in the Polling and Opinion Research course.&nbsp;With the Alberta provincial election expected&nbsp;in only a few&nbsp;weeks,&nbsp;she talked about the challenges of starting a grassroots political organization and&nbsp;running against&nbsp;a political party which has been in power for more than four decades. She stresed the importance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}