If the Sask. Party emerges with another solid majority on Monday night, it probably won't be on the strength of the October 2024 campaign it ran.

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Perhaps the fabled and formidable Saskatchewan Party election machine is only now kicking in with an awesome E-Day get-out-the-vote ground game that gives them them another huge majority.

Maybe the Sask. Party alchemists behind the scenes — those who live by the dark arts of algorithms, ruthlessly framed to concoct issues to motivate an increasingly outraged electorate — may yet prove they still know what they’re doing.

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After all, the NDP have been underestimating the Sask. Party’s skills since the 1999 election, when they were also trailing in the polls.

But it sure doesn’t seem the Sask. Party is running the kind of stellar campaign for which it’s famous. If the Sask. Party emerges with another solid majority on Monday night, it probably won’t be on the strength of the October 2024 campaign it ran.

This is in no way to suggest that Carla Beck’s NDP........

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