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Originally Posted by Parallex
Honest question here... how did Chu get elected in the first place? I mean the guy isn't charismatic, says dumb things all the time, and constantly sounds confused at council meetings. Just wondering why people voted for this guy in the first place?
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Most people barely pay attention to politics at all (especially local/municipal politics) and can't even tell you much about Chu. He's a self-described conservative (that alone gets you very far in Calgary politics, as Rob Anders and more recently Michelle Rempel Garner demonstrate), and he regularly gets positive/favourable coverage in Sun Media publications where the writers and editors massage his words to make him sound more intelligent and coherent than he comes across to anyone who listens to him directly.
So yeah, everyone who actively follows local politics knows how moronic Chu is and how utterly worthless he is as a councillor (even conservatives who oppose the same things he opposes should still expect better representative of their views than Chu provides), but the percentage of the population who are highly-informed voters is way too low. I'd hazard a guess and say anyone who reads this thread is likely more informed about local politics than 75% or more of voters.