The party leaders stood a few feet away from each other, but Danielle Smith may as well have been in a radio booth in another building, or hours from where Rachel Notley was.
The UCP leader refrained from casting her eyes in her NDP rival’s direction throughout the debate. No looking at Notley while Smith was debating; no pivoting her neck to the side while she listened.
The incumbent premier’s face and gaze were consistently focused on the camera in front of her, TV-anchor-style. While political strategists perennially insist that a leader should speak directly to voters rather than to their opponent,
