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Originally Posted by Bunk
The lack of interest is quite remarkable. I don't know whether this is disenchantment or whether people assume Prentice would win, so why bother. Probably both. I wouldn't be totally shocked by a McIver upset. If he can get out the vote, he could slip by Prentice.
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Originally Posted by ken0042
Poll I saw last night had 23% Prentice, 12% McIver, 10% Lukaszuk, and over 50% undecided. If nobody gets 50.1% this time, there's a second vote. You could see one of the two who get knocked out get behind one other person and surge ahead.
Myself I'm voting for McIver. Partially because I liked him as my alderman, but also because of the job he did as Transportation Minister.
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I was speaking with some people this morning and while it seems like Prentice should win in a landslide, they were shocked at how many "red tories" were voting for McIver. Take that FWIW, which might well be nothing.
I saw Prentice speak in his role as a banker and he really impressive. It might be just the state of politics in the province, or depends on what you are comparing him to, but he was head and shoulders above what the leaders at the time were capable of. Now he wasn't speaking on political issues at that point, and it was a business-friendly crowd, so who knows what you can take from that. All I know is that I was impressed, and that had nothing to do with politics because he wasn't in politics at that point and not running for anything.
I did hear a very favorable report on McIver today as well though. I don't want to divulge where, so I will keep this really broad. Basically they met with him months ago and he didn't know anything about the particular topic. They gave him a lot of information and sources of information. When they met again a couple of months later he was totally educated adn could speak on the topic. Not that they completely agreed, but he had clearly done his homework. Again, maybe thats worth absolutely nothing, but I thought it was interesting.