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Calgary Municipal Politics

Which mayoral candidate do you intend to vote for in 2021?

  • Jeremy Farkas

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • Jyoti Gondek

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • Sonya Sharp

    Votes: 2 11.8%

  • Jeff Davison

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Brian Thiessen

    Votes: 6 35.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • Total voters
    17
I'm not sure I would call this stuff mudslinging. Maybe just my opinion, but to me mudslinging is where it get's personal. These are just regular political questioning of a politician's actions. They're fairly minor actions, but nonetheless something that's fair game.
 
Got this in the email the other day, regarding ward 7.
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I was reading on Reddit the other day, quite a few people not sure what to do for Ward 7. That undecided 54% tells me those people don't really care for Wong, but don't know who to vote for yet. I mean, he's the incumbent, and he's only at 17%. I feel like he could easily be beaten, it's just a matter of which horse to bet on.
 
Surrealplaces said:
I was reading on Reddit the other day, quite a few people not sure what to do for Ward 7. That undecided 54% tells me those people don't really care for Wong, but don't know who to vote for yet. I mean, he's the incumbent, and he's only at 17%. I feel like he could easily be beaten, it's just a matter of which horse to bet on.
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His primary voting base seems to be wealthier and older residents + Chinatown, which are also under represented in online polls and Reddit. I do see him trying to adjust his positions, by voting against the climate change motion he sponsored and probably realizing he shouldn't have joined Communities First as that only makes it clear to people not paying attention to municipal politics what side he is on. There's easily more progressive votes in this ward, with the University and Hospital. Not to mention major developments in University District, Bridgeland, Kensington even since the last municipal election. There just needs to be a consensus candidate.
 
trtcttc said:
But looking like there's going to be a progressive vote split again.
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I'm not seeing that in the math. Wong is probably close to his peak, if you're in the ward you probably have an opinion one way or the other on Wong and you're not in the undecided category. So even if the progressive vote to splits, that distribution of that 54% undecided likely pushes any one of them above Wong.

The large swath of undecided across the City likely means voters looking for something new, they're just not sure what and are only just starting to pay attention.
 
trtcttc said:
His primary voting base seems to be wealthier and older residents + Chinatown, which are also under represented in online polls and Reddit. I do see him trying to adjust his positions, by voting against the climate change motion he sponsored and probably realizing he shouldn't have joined Communities First as that only makes it clear to people not paying attention to municipal politics what side he is on. There's easily more progressive votes in this ward, with the University and Hospital. Not to mention major developments in University District, Bridgeland, Kensington even since the last municipal election. There just needs to be a consensus candidate.
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It's definitely a progressive ward. Much of ward is also the same area that covers the Calgary riding that voted liberally in the federal election. He can easily be beaten, if people can get behind a common progressive candidate.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
I'm not seeing that in the math. Wong is probably close to his peak, if you're in the ward you probably have an opinion one way or the other on Wong and you're not in the undecided category. So even if the progressive vote to splits, that distribution of that 54% undecided likely pushes any one of them above Wong.

The large swath of undecided across the City likely means voters looking for something new, they're just not sure what and are only just starting to pay attention.
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The thing I worry abut is what TTRC had mentioned. I'm not sure how many of Wong's supporters managed to make the poll. Last time he had 25% of the vote, which I think is probably going to be similar this time, but with three people standing out on the progressive side It's a bit too close for my liking. Keep in mind there are also some other candidates on top of the three maoin progressive. I still think we in Ward 7 need to get behind one of those three.
 
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