The race for Mayor Poll #2 July and August

[Wooster]

With the Higgins announcement, it's time for another poll.

Who do you support for mayor?

Last Poll results:

Naheed Nenshi - 57.5%
The Moose - 21.25%
Ric McIver - 7.5%
Kent Hehr- 5%

...and then everyone else.

Please disregard other thread.

[fusili]

OMG! Nenshi is polling 100% support of people who voted in an online poll on a forum dedicated to construction and development in Calgary. McIver and Higgins should throw in the towel, this obviously indicates that support for Nenshi is overwhelming.

[Yume-sama]

I'd be fine with anyone who was an alderman before losing, and being completely out of office.

Go outsiders, go!

[Wooster]

Originally Posted by fusili

OMG! Nenshi is polling 100% support of people who voted in an online poll on a forum dedicated to construction and development in Calgary. McIver and Higgins should throw in the towel, this obviously indicates that support for Nenshi is overwhelming.

Yes, or everyone should drop out and appoint me as supreme dictator.

[kw5150]

I dont know much about Barb Higgins but here speech on CTV was pretty bad. It was not very motivating.

[Yume-sama]

She definitely should have used her one day of media attention better.

Maybe to announce some concrete plans. It's not a complete given that the media will pay all the attention in the World to her.

Other than maybe CTV, I guess

[halifaxboyns]

You guys forgot the option of the deer!

[Wooster]

^ Sadly the Moose dropped out of the race.

[DizzyEdge]

last time I voted Nenshi, but this time I put undecided since my Nenshi vote was mostly due to him being the only person who had put out a detailed platform so far, it could change depending on what the others do.

[Ferreth]

I voted "undecided" since I couldn't vote for the moose. Nenshi sounds interesting, but I'm not convinced yet. Barb Higgins is unlikely to get my vote. She was speaking on CBC this morning about how she is going to empower the city hall workers to make decisions. I don't give a whoop-dee-whoop about what any candidate says about making city more efficient - I wouldn't know enough to judge their ideas as being good or bad, but even with that, things like "empower the workers" are just slogans that don't mean anything, kind of like most of the current set of promises out there.

[mr.steevo]

Hi,

Looks like Nenshi has 27 votes as of this writing.

Given how few people voted in Calgary's last municipal election, 27 votes should just about sew it up for him.

s.

[floobie]

Well, I've finally taken the time to start reading up on the mayoral candidates. The majority of the platforms are, frankly, crap. Just a bunch of empty statements with no plans for follow through that basically anyone will agree with. "A safer Calgary". Screw that, I want some danger! "Open Calgary to the world". No, I want Calgary to turn into a cultural wasteland!

Come on...

For that reason, Nenshi really sticks out to me, for the moment. His platform is by far the most detailed. He actually has plans, not just a bunch of rhetoric and empty statements that anyone will agree with. I'm sure there are things I'd disagree with Nenshi on (though I haven't encountered anything yet). But, I respect that he's actually being proactive.

McIvor in particular stuck out to me as the supreme example of all talk and no walk. Correct me if I'm wrong, but his campaign is relatively "mature" compared to Higgins', right? He's had quite a lot of time to cultivate a detailed platform with some semblance of follow-through, but his website has fuck all. Higgins' I'll give a pass on this for a bit, considering she just entered the race. Burrows is really the only other candidate who appears to have given any thought to actually implementing his promises.

All that said, I voted undecided. I'm waiting on Higgins' platform to mature, before I discount her. And I'm also interested to see where Burrows takes things. But, to me, right now, Nenshi is the front-runner... and looking at the poll results, I'm not alone on that.