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Are you scared yet? Get ready. The ooga-booga campaign is just beginning.

The only play left for the Progressive Conservatives is to frighten Albertans with the spectre of an NDP government, in hopes that right-side voters will switch from Wildrose back to their traditional home.

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That’s their road to the 13th PC majority in a row. And it could work on May 5, even though NDP Leader Rachel Notley actually appears to be ahead.

Or rather, it can work because she seems to be ahead.

The prospect of the NDP winning the most seats is just the wedge the PCs need to give second life to a campaign that seemed almost dead.

The fright-wig ploy has become a late-campaign PC specialty. They pulled it off brilliantly in 2012 with the anti-gay bogey that helped collapse Wildrose support.

This time the target is both bigger and more elusive.

The truth is that Notley isn’t very scary at all. Compared to the Wildrose Lake of Fire, she offers the NDP bubble bath.