Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
The NDP has been running student aged candidates in elections for years now in ridings where they couldn't find anyone else with much for qualifications interested in doing the job.
|
I think it's a matter of, when victory seems highly unlikely, the qualified candidates don't want to waste their time, quitting their job for 6 weeks of hard work, for likely no gain.
Had the future been known, I think the NDP would have had no problem filling those positions with qualified candidates.
It's really just an unfortunate result of voting for candidates, and not parties in each riding. In ridings where victory is very unlikely, qualified candiates likely lose something by running. Underqualified candidates have nothing to lose, so the party can place them in those ridings.
Of course, the NDP would love to now replace some of the candidates with a more qualified person from the riding (I don't think they would have a hard time doing this, if it were possible). However, the only way to do that would be through a byelection, and I sort of doubt that the NDP would be winning any byelections in these ridings, even if they happened tomorrow.