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My thoughts:
Congrats on the Nenshi win. Certainly a vote for change, and hit the peak at the right time in the campaign to energize voters

One wonders if Higgins never jumped in, will have to wait and see the demographic breakdown, if she fractured the vote from McIvor, and, the what the breakdown of all demographics who voted for Nenshi.

Let's see if all those campainging for him as a candidate for change and as an alternative, and in the new media way he took advantage of, will stick beside him as the actual traditional daily grind work begins, or if the novelty of voting him in as a young, visable, well spoken well educated visable minority, is/was the end game.

On Nenshi's side, can he, with no real relationships with any one in city council, or within the bureaucracy within city hall, actually foster change? Not through backing off on promises, but the combination of having to sell strangers on council (who have the same vote as he does) on the ideas, and then, breaking down the behind the scenes red tape within City Hall's behind the scene network, again, strangers who've been there for years and make the city tick, for better or worse.

Also, as most candidates some of his answers on key issues were pretty vauge, but are farily important, and a plan needs to be in place sooner then later one way or another. Things sometimes don't get done that quickly unless there is a real public and behind the scenes push to move things along...is he ready to take all that on, or is he jumping into a pool blindly where proper theory and common sense sometimes don't rule the day.