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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
On this board he perhaps is but among older voters - I would suspect he damaged his chances.
It's anecdotal only but I've talked to a few people who were on the fence and now will not vote for Nenshi because of his comments about the police force.
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I doubt Nenshi is going to have any traction with older voters anyway. I suspect the ones that are angry with City Council and don't want to vote for anyone associated with it are going to vote Higgins and be the 15-20% of the vote she'll end up with because she's a familiar face they "trust". Then the rest of those 55+ will go to McIvor, with a sprinkling of crotchety nutbars going for the other candidates. These are the same people that voted for Al Duerr and were happy with low taxes and falling behind in infrastructure before; they like McIvor's reflexive "no" to everything just fine.
Nenshi really has to connect with the 35-54 crowd that is politically motivated. He probably needs 60-70% of their votes to have any chance at all. To that end, he needs to get in the news as much as possible and attack where his opponents are weak, which is, in McIvor's case, his association with council, and in Higgins' case, her association with nothing of substance.