Decision 2010: Calgary Municipal Election

[nick.flood]

Go Fusili!!

[Witty Nickname]

Originally Posted by artvandelay

is this fusili on now? (shaw)

I was about to ask the same thing...

[Ramsayfarian]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I hate this 🞵🞵🞵🞵, I'm gripping hard right now.

I don't want to know what.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by artvandelay

is this fusili on now? (shaw)

Yup, that's him!

[Witty Nickname]

Is his shirt purple too?

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Ramsayfarian

I don't want to know what.

Wrong choice of words I guess, I just hate waiting for the full results. Mrs. Bigtime isn't back from poll 802 yet (she was working as a DRO) and Littletime will not go to bed!

[Witty Nickname]

Let's hear some SSP plugs!

[Policy Wonk]

My elderly mother has taken to calling Higgins "Ralph Klein's 🞵🞵🞵🞵"

[Me&You]

Originally Posted by Policy Wonk

My elderly mother has taken to calling Higgins "Ralph Klein's 🞵🞵🞵🞵"

I love old people's comments... kinda like "🞵🞵🞵🞵 my dad says"

[Stingray2004]

Originally Posted by PoscStudent

Nenshi is now at 25% support McIver is at 31% and Higgins is at 36%.

As a Metro Vancouverite... I'm curious. Where do these three lie on the political spectrum and how do they differentiate from one another in terms of policies, etc.?

[freeweed]

What happens if we wrap this thread?

[Radley77]

I think that was Fusili! Very well spoken!

[mooky]

John Dukes - Calgary Police Association "We're gonna win the war on crime" - Global TV at McIvers campaign office.

*FACEPALM*

[floobie]

Argh... why am I watching this? I have 🞵🞵🞵🞵 to do. But noooo, I have the CTV stream going on my desktop computer while I "work" on my laptop. And I have the city election tally open in another tab.

Actually caring about the results of an election 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵

[crooked rain]

So on the city of Calgary election results site, what does the 'leading by' column mean? (its the column next to 'total votes')

Nevermind- figured it out.

[mersar]

Originally Posted by floobie

Argh... why am I watching this? I have 🞵🞵🞵🞵 to do. But noooo, I have the CTV stream going on my desktop computer while I "work" on my laptop. And I have the city election tally open in another tab.

Actually caring about the results of an election 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵

You're not too bad. I've got global on the TV (via my mac mini), twitter on one screen, this on the second and my laptop on ctv

[srperrycgy]

Shaw on TV, Global on comp. with TweetDeck and other windows open.

[PoscStudent]

Nenshi's at 28%

[Bassic Lab]

Originally Posted by Stingray2004

As a Metro Vancouverite... I'm curious. Where do these three lie on the political spectrum and how do they differentiate from one another in terms of policies, etc.?

As I see it:

McIver was originally elected from the far right but has tried to move towards the centre and into PC territory. So basically the right to centre-right.

Higgins is a pretty moderate centre-left candidate pulling PC to Liberal with an endorsement from the NDP candidate (which is not based on any kind of real left wing policies).

Nenshi is a bit harder to peg, kind of like the Green Party. He is the sustainable development/urban candidate and relatively pro-business. So he pulls a bit of a mishmash of support due to policies that are relatively difficult to place on a left-right spectrum. Sustainable development, like the environment, can pull voters from just about anywhere. If I had to say I put him with Higgins on the centre-left.

[Aegis]

Holy smokes this is getting close.. Nenshi at 28%