Thanks to Matt Grant for the comment letting me know that the Democratic Renewal Project has a website up.The DRP is a group that I first heard about at a democratic renewal meeting held in Edmonton last July.  One of the attendees said that he was starting it up, and wanted help.The premise, as I understand it is:a) Convince the centre and left parties in Alberta to merge, or if that doesn't work;b) convince them to divy up the ridings and run only one candidate per, or if that doesn't work;c) for the DRP itself to endorse only one of the parties in each of the ridings, and encourage strategic voting of the sort that got Linda Duncan her seat in Ottawa.Daveberta is happy to see people thinking outside of the box.  I find it difficult to get too terribly excited about this particular group because I don't think its strategy can work.  First, a) and b) just ain't hapnin'.  And c), even if it worked perfectly, would only increase the size of the opposition slightly.If combined we had enough votes to get enough seats to actually implement electoral reforms, then I'd be more interested.As it is, it's a call for a de-facto long-term merger around the unifying principle that we are not Progressive Conservatives.Colour me uninspired.As Matt points out, there are a lot of fronts opening up in the fight for a reinvigoration of Alberta politics.  The DRP, these other people (who really need a name, or something), the Alberta Liberal Party's own process, and I'm hearing rumblings about things going on... on the right wing!The thing is, I don't think any of these is totally duplicative of the others.  In order for a new party to be legitimate, the ALP has to remain.  For the ALP not to collapse under the weight of its own debt, it needs to renew.  For the DRP, the more parties there are, the more necessary or helpful their little project becomes.So I say the more the merrier.  Whatever gets more people engaged.