Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is facing a threat from a new party because he ignored and took for granted his own party's supporters.

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With an election only two months away, Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party is in rough shape.

A ballooning deficit, a health-care crisis, rampant crime and drug addiction in our streets, harassment accusations against his own MLAs, and court battles with the federal government have distracted Moe’s administration from its safe and familiar theme of economic growth.

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A recent Insightrix opinion poll put the Saskatchewan NDP one point ahead of the governing Saskatchewan Party (48-47). While the purported NDP lead is unlikely to translate into a sizable seat count, the Saskatchewan Party should still be worried about a looming electoral challenge that could see its share of the vote drop precipitously in both urban and rural areas.

Enter the Saskatchewan United Party. A new upstart populist party, in the same vein as the new B.C. Conservatives, the Reform Party of Canada or the old Saskatchewan........

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