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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
It’s almost as if there was something different going on during this election compared to the last one. It’s as if there was some polarizing issue on the minds of voters, dare I say that there may have even an organized effort to remove Nenshi from office which makes comparing the 2 electrons a moot point. I wonder what the numbers would have looked like had the flames put as much money behind Nenshi instead of Smith. In your opinion would they would have remained the same for the smug one?
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Obviously difficult to answer... but when I originally chimed in, there were posters supporting the City position because this was an election issue that Nenshi won with a
majority.
Your post kind of emphasizes my point - the Arena was an election issue, and Nenshi support plummeted. Was it the only issue? Of course not (green line, etc). I disagree that there was an organized effort to remove the mayor... rather an organized effort to bring issues (like the arena) to the fore during the election - just my opinion though.
However it happened, over 50% more people voted in a mayoral race than 4 years earlier. I'm sure we can agree that people taking part in an election is a good thing. And of those additional 135k voters, 129k voted away from Nenshi - those are just the numbers.