The City of Calgary held its' general municipal election yesterday. Out of the 600,000 eligible voters amongst the 985,000 citizens of greater Calgary...119,495 actually voted. That's 19.9% of eligble voters OR 12.1% of the total citizens. Isn't that SAD?
Oh, the mayor got re-elected (with 79% of the vote) and of the 14 aldermanic seats, 4 aldermen were acclaimed and 2 of the 10 seats up for grabs changed hands. Diane Danielson is the only alderman to lose a seat, since the other seat was vacated.
Eh, I didn't vote either. The mayor was going to win in a landslide and my local alderthingy was going to win handily too. I had no reason to vote against either of them, so I just allowed the universe to unfold as it should without making any waves.
If I could fix me up a week of twilight hours we'd sit on the point and watch the sun continually flounder. Bathed in gold we'd plug into some kind of power and connect with those days back before all of this went sour.
I'm not sure if you have primaries in Canadian cities, but general elections in major US cities have similar turnouts. Baltimore is 80-some percent Democrat, so the main event is the primaries...
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As I've said before, if they just called these anti-Bush protests (which they more or less are), I'd be on the front lines. I definitely agree that anti-war folks would not be nearly as vehement if this was Clinton.