Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Sometimes playing to your demographic isn't such a bad idea.


Oooooooh ... 19 per cent of the vote. That's actually fairly impressive. Where did Dick get all that support? Oh, wait ... never mind.
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9 comments:

Red Tory said...

Poor Richard. *snort*

Oh well. Points for effort, I guess.

7:48 AM
Ti-Guy said...

2600 people voted for that cracker? Whoa...that must be one really retarded part of Calgary.

...and that's saying a lot.

8:34 AM
MgS said...

Actually, if you look at the numbers - just about anybody running against an incumbent can garner 20% of the vote if they get their name out there.

20% is simply the percentage of voters that are generally unhappy - call it "voter margin of error" if you will. Looking at other 2-3 candidate races, the competition tended to garner about 20% of the vote if they actually campaigned. (Ward 12's alternative to McIver ran a "stealth campaign" - you couldn't even find his website until early last week! - and he garnered 10% of the vote)

8:52 AM
The Seer said...

Greg sed: just about anybody running against an incumbent can garner 20% of the vote

Actually, the rule of thumb in Michigan is 25%. (Oooh, that turned out awful. It's not just the in The Thumb, it's the rule throughout the state, even in the UP.)

9:13 AM
M@ said...

Richard's vote total is actually pretty impressive -- I don't know if I, as a voter, could have gotten past his promotion of Neo-Nazi and pedophilia-related sites.

Anyhow, lots of spare time for prosecuting defamation lawsuits, now, eh? I wonder when that's gonna happen.

9:38 AM
Ti-Guy said...

I don't know if I, as a voter, could have gotten past his promotion of Neo-Nazi and pedophilia-related sites.

Well, that's just it. A two-second googling would have revealed at least a taste of that controversy, and a quick perusal of his web site would have revealed even more. I guess some people show up at polls with absolutely no thought beyond voting against the incumbent. I'm surprised that so many of them bothered in a municipal election.

Or maybe Calgary Ward 4 really is Cracker Central.

10:01 AM
thwap said...

Is that Patrick Ross's mother in the CBC story?

I think a lot of people who showed up to vote voted for the first name on their list of choices.

"Richard Evans" is a pretty standard Canadian name, with none of the associations of insanity that it carries for us here at CC's blog.

11:04 AM
Ti-Guy said...

I'd never vote for a Welsh git. ;)

1:12 PM
Zorpheous said...

squashed like a cock-a-roach

3:57 PM

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