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Originally Posted by jtfrogger
That seems like a lot of effort by 1CC for what seems like a predetermined endorsement of Turner. Tweets have been biased toward Turner. There seems to be a number of personal links between 1CC & the Turner campaign.
Now this process of registering with validation. Sure, it shows that they are going above and beyond to screen out duplicates. However, this will by no means be a random sample. This is very biased toward those that are very active online. Turner's campaign is very actively promoting that people sign up. Given that it appears that Turner has the strongest volunteer army, his supporters will dominate the poll. The sad part is 1CC will use this "validation" process to argue that it was an impartial process.
Keep in mind I am saying this as someone who is going to vote for Turner and I really hope that he wins (no matter how big of a longshot). I still think he is the best candidate, by far. Even if he comes in third, my vote is not wasted. It shows that if you bring forward a great candidate, you have a great shot of winning even if you are are backed by a "loonie" party. I think he would be in the lead if he was the Liberal candidate.
I am looking forward to hear the result of the latest polls. There are at least two recent polls. I got one call last night and one the night before. The call I got last night was interesting, in that it asked if 1CC would influence my vote. Obviously, this could be a private poll, but even these often get released unless the people paying for it really don't like the result.
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I agree with your sentiment here (not every thing, like I have no idea how you discern that Turner has the strongest volunteer army, but its not a big deal). Honestly, just trying to be objective, if 1CC picks the guy in third place over the guy in second the entire process was flawed. I totally understand that there are a lot of people who like Turner over the other two, and vice-versa. There are a lot of people who also like Crockatt over the other three. If the entire decision comes down to an online poll though and basically disregards the other polls, there is something misguided. Looking at the polls and trying to read the tea leaves to somehow suggest that Turner is the favoured progressive because of things like "growth since the beginning of time" or "Turner has never lost an election the day after the Grey Cup game" or whatever is just plain gerrymandering in my opinion.