It's been a while since I've had the chance to sit down and tell you about my experience on the campaign trail. Things have been busy, in all directions.Things are going well. I had a bit of a challenge recently on the data management front. Elections Alberta has released a new list of registered voters in all of the constituencies. In our constituency, that meant about 10% of our records were missing, or wrong. I had to figure out how to get the new data into the database without erasing anything that we had already added to them.It worked out well, but I was in the campaign office until 2:30 in the morning one night this week making sure we were ready to go.We've been getting a lot of data back from our team about the voting preferences of people on the phones and at the doors. Two things strike me about it. First, the undecided category is huge. Polls say that somewhere between 25% and 30% of Albertans are undecided going into this election. In this riding, according to our numbers, that would appear to be closer to 50%!Those people are going to make the difference, no doubt about it. Especially when you consider that this riding has Candidates from three major parties, two minor parties, and one independent incumbent. No one knows how all that is going to shake out when 50% of people haven't decided which way to go.The other thing that strikes me is how different my big concerns are from the big concerns of most people we speak to. My personal area of interest, for example, is democratic reform. How many times have we heard people talk about the need for democratic reform in our constituency? Once. I think the biggest issue facing Alberta right now is balancing our economy with a sustainable environmental policy. Where does that rank on the list of concerns of people in this constituency? Well, it's in the top 10. But it's not in the top 5.It's been fun watching Stelmach campaign up until this point. Until he actually hid from the media this past weekend, a day hadn't gone by where there wasn't bad news for the Tories. On the one day that they made a policy announcement that wasn't being trashed by regular Albertans in the room at the time, one of their star candidates in Calgary starts complaining about Stelmach.By any accounting of it, this has been a disastrous week of campaigning for the Tories. It remains to be seen whether or not that makes any difference in the results. I suspect it doesn't impress upon Albertans as strongly as it impresses upon journalists, who have nothing to do but follow the man from one train wreck to another.Closer to home, I don't know if I've mentioned it, but we're in the unusual situation, here, that our campaign office shares a wall with the campaign office for the independent candidate, Dan Backs. Backs ran and won as a Liberal in the last election. He was expelled from the Liberal caucus, and ran for the PC nomination. He (and a past PC MLA from this riding) both lost the PC nomination to Peter Sandhu, from Mill Woods. So Backs threw his hat in the ring as an independent. He had a bunch of campaign signs left over from the last election, and started re-using them. Unfortunately, he was a Liberal then, so his campaign signs were red with white text, just like ours. He painted over the words "Alberta Liberal" and painted "Independent" in their place.So we had two campaign offices right next to each other, with near-identical campaign signs in the window. I think I have a picture of it on my cell-phone. I'll try and post it. Recently, though, Dan has changed to a black and yellow colour scheme. So his campaign office, at least, can be distinguished from ours. I haven't been around the riding enough yet to know whether or not he's switching his other signs to the new colours.I think I've said before that we don't know whose vote Dan Backs might split. I think having his signs not be red is probably making it less likely he'll split ours.