Calgary Municipal Politics

[Albertasaurus]

The ranks of all the polls align no? I wouldn’t call that all over the place.

The ranks align, but I've seen some polls with a much bigger lead for Farkas. One I thought he was at roughly double Gondek and Sharp? And I think this is the first poll I've seen with either Gondek or Sharp over 20%.

 

[lemongrab]

The ranks align, but I've seen some polls with a much bigger lead for Farkas. One I thought he was at roughly double Gondek and Sharp? And I think this is the first poll I've seen with either Gondek or Sharp over 20%.

I think this poll forced 'undecideds' to say where they are leaning. And it seems like those folks generally follow the existing trend of decideds

 

[Surrealplaces]

If I'm not mistaken Farkas had around this same number last election. He probably has the most to gain as he has a base hovering in the 20-30% range, and I feel like he won't lose much, if any of his base, while Sharp, and Davison battle it out for the other conservative leaning voters. To me this looks similar to the last election with a couple of progressive candidates gone Gondek/Thiessen on one side and Farkas and Davison on the other side, but now Sharp has been thrown into the mix and has quite a lot of share.
The other thing was last election. A lot of strategic voting for a Gondek to keep Farkas out. I’m not sure we’ll see as much of that maybe some of those votes have gone to sharp?

 

[CalgaryTiger]

I'm nervous as hell to vote Farkas. I, maybe naively, believe he has changed... Thiessen would be my other choice, but the polls tell me that would be a wasted vote. I just remind myself it is one vote on council. I was hoping we'd get someone run that sold themselves as someone who can run a meeting and for lack of a better term a boardroom, but it didn't happen. I know government isn't the private sector and isn't a business but if any level of government is close to it, it is municipal government.

 

[Mountain Man]

Haha Larry Heather is still running? He probably gets the same 10 votes each time...

I get the sentiment about how much Farkas has actually changed, I wonder if he will stick to it or turn back to his old ways when there is pressure on him.