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Originally Posted by c.t.ner
I'll throw this out there again, and I'll also place my personal reputation on this, but nothing with this process is predetermined.
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I probably overstated my point. I don't actually believe that 1CC started this with the intent of having a separate campaign supporting Turner. It is just the biases toward Turner are apparent. This is both in individual comments as well as the process being biased towards his supporters. Given the bias, it is really hard to take the group seriously. There were bias accusations early on. As I stated earlier, I didn't include this group in my initial post because people were accusing them of being biased toward Turner. I think it is an innocent bias, but if this was done with more effort to be impartial the campaign would be a bit more effective.
There are tweets nearly every day that sound like spin towards Turner.
Here is an example from yesterday:
The link goes to a Facebook group for "Progressive Conservatives 4 Turner". This link could have just as easily been shared without the words, "Game changer?" The phrase implies that the existence of this group means that even if you thought that Locke was the candidate to beat the CPC, here is something that could change that. This link could have been shared with less biased wording. Even something as boring as "Here is a group of conservatives that support the Green party". If you wanted something a little less boring, it could have even been something like, "Even strong conservatives want a progressive candidate." I posted a link earlier of the assessment of the polls saying that Locke had hit is ceiling as another biased tweet. There are more, and I now fully understand why I was seeing so much criticism for 1 Calgary Centre early on.
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At this point we have 500 registered voters, may look like at the end of the registration drive we have 700-800 people partaking. We also do not know which way the votes will swing until everything is tabulated. From my standpoint, I'm curious as to how it all plans out. How the questions are arranged will provide some interesting information into not only who people support, but who they think will win.
At the end of the we're hoping to get the opinion of 700-800 residents of Calgary Centre. Who the collective endorses is who the collective endorses.
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I too look forward to seeing the result, but I will not use it to base my decision of voting.
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I agree with you that Turner supporters are very active online. I guess the question is if Harvey or Meades campaign were as active or more active online would the project be biased to Harvey or Meades? Is Twitter more biased to Turner or Harvey because many of the users are online? Is Tumblr more biased to Harvey because the campaign has a Tumblr blog? At the end of the day the 1CalgaryCentre project was a tool for people in the riding to find out more about the candidates and it was a tool for the campaigns to leverage. All three campaigns were well aware of the process when we started in July/August. We can't control who embraced it and who chose not to, we have been encouraging all "progressives" in Calgary Centre to participate - it's always been open to everyone.
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If you truly want to support the candidate that has the best chance of beating Crockatt, it would be best not to have an approach that biases any candidate for having more engaged volunteers. That in itself is a very good sign of a good candidate, but it is not an indication that they have the best chance of winning.