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Originally Posted by Slava
Ya, I think that you guys are right. Its easier in hindsight to look back and think that I should've spent the $5k-8k to put up bold signs at the same time. I mentioned in a thread (might be this one) that if I lost it would change my mind about campaigning and how to win and this does that. My thought was that no one meets a candidate, let alone a school trustee candidate, so my spending a lot of time pressing the flesh would have people remember me at the polling station.
Frankly that might work for better known people, but not for an unknown as you explain. It's also incredibly time consuming! I guess my false sense of security came from my standing on the corner waving at cars and feeling like almost everyone was waving back/honking/giving me a thumbs up so they would remember that and mark their ballot accordingly.
I do think that there were/are a number of factors though. I was also shocked that Styles did so well, but its hard to know how people decide or why they vote the way that they do in general for these types of "lesser" positions.
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I always wondered whether or not school trustee election results were more or less a result of 'machine' politics than by good old campiagning. My mother used to work at the seperate board and got pretty high up where she would regularily attend board meetings and she used to tell us stories about the odd moonbat trustee that would get elected because church groups and/or community groups would get out the vote for their special interest candidate and they would be prove very hard to remove in ensuing elections. There was even rumor of them purposely nominating 'dummy candidates' to split the vote among the opposition.