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    Wednesday, November 8


    I'm no politician. I like politics (admittedly, I like politics a lot) and I have even flirted with the idea of running for an office (or more likely running my wife, who is far more attractive and much less shy). I say this because even if I ran, and even if I ran without much thought of winning or planning, I believe I would do better than, say, 2%. 10% might be a stretch, but certainly 2% is more than do-able.

    Apparently Stephen LeDrew, former President of the Liberal Party of Canada, is running to be mayor of Toronto. Good for him. I doubt I would vote for him, but I do know who he is. Always wore a bowtie, called Chretien's campaign finance reforms (and by reforms we mean he socialized it, how Canadian was that?) "dumber than a bag of hammers," and was a key person in convincing Jean that it was time to go.

    On the other hand, I have no idea who Jane Pitfield is (well, I do now - read her wiki) and all I know about David Miller is that he is the incumbent mayor of Toronto. I know more about Stephen LeDrew than both of these people combined.

    Apparently what I know about someone is not related to how they do in the polls - Stephen LeDrew, as pointed out by Paul Wells, is polling at 2%. 2%?!? WTF?

    However, if electoral performance is inversally related to how well Duncan Wojtaszek knows them (which would explain a couple of electoral results) I would like to point out I once had a class with Dr. Ted Morton. I know him very, very well.
     posted by Duncan @ 6:14 AM  

    3 Comments:

    • At 8:30 AM, Anonymous elaine said…

      You know another candidate very very well....
      eep!

       

    • At 6:31 PM, Blogger Duncan said…

      I think it is fair to say I know five of the candidates well enough (although I don't think Lyle remembers me well. So with that, the second ballot should be Victor, Mark and Gary, in that order.

       

    • At 7:38 PM, Anonymous albertablue said…

      And how was Dr. Ted's class?? Pretty boring from what I hear from everyone else.

       

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