Most Albertans oppose separation. Fundraising and online chatter tell a different story
Over the last year, polling has found again and again that most Albertans oppose separation, CBC reports — yet fundraising and online chatter would leave a different impression. That gap between a polling majority and the noise around a movement is worth noticing on its own terms. Intensity and volume are not the same as numbers, and the things that are easy to see are not always the things that are numerous. Which of the two actually decides a vote is the interesting question, and not one a poll answers by itself.
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Fundraising and online chatter select for intensity, not headcount. A movement can look enormous precisely because its supporters are the ones who show up, donate and post.
And yet intensity is what turns out on the day that matters. A quiet majority that stays home loses to a loud minority that doesn't, whatever the polls said the week before.
True, but that's an argument about turnout, not about support. The reported pattern is still a mismatch between what most people say and who is making the noise.