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	<title>punditry.ca -- uncovering DSU elections &#187; Mike Smit</title>
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	<description>the candidates, the issues, the entertainment</description>
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		<title>candidate list</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2012/02/candidate-list-2/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2012/02/candidate-list-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that all the candidates know, we can share with you an unofficial candidates list&#8230; we kind of dropped the ball on putting out a guessing game for our various speculations and tips.  Whoops. The list features two current executives seeking the President&#8217;s seat (presumably because Saulnier made it look easy), a 5-way race for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>what would you do if I sang out of tune?</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2012/01/what-would-you-do-if-i-sang-out-of-tune/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2012/01/what-would-you-do-if-i-sang-out-of-tune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard, Kandidate Karaoke is now on the elections schedule: Grad House, Thursday, February 9th @ 9PM).  This event first made a semi-official appearance last year and has already resulted in a few memorable moments.  Campaigning in campus bars is strictly verboten, and although an exception is made for the presidential candidates during [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>the early bird gets worms</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2012/01/the-early-bird-gets-worms/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2012/01/the-early-bird-gets-worms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DSU Elections season is upon us &#8211; a month or two early.  Yes, Virginia, nominations open on January 23rd, voting takes place February 14-16th, and the period in the middle will be occupied by a) punditry and b) fodder for punditry.   dsuelections.ca is live and has all the details.  The motivating factors for the move include [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>seven years of voter turnout</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/seven-years-of-voter-turnout/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/seven-years-of-voter-turnout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This graph shows cumulative votes over time for seven elections.  Not shown is the 2007 student spaces referendum, which was so good it won&#8217;t even fit on this graph.  Also not shown is the 2004 turnout, which similarly makes every other year look bad. The axes are unlabelled (SACRILEGE!) but I believe in context it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>the results</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/anticipating-the-results/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/anticipating-the-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CRO is planning to release the results in batches throughout the evening, starting roughly at 9 and drawing it out for an hour or two.  @ersnow will be live-tweeting the results; if you aren&#8217;t following him, we&#8217;ll copy the results to a page here for your enjoyment. Update: Submission to tipline reports turnout of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>punditry predicts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/punditry-predicts/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/punditry-predicts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polls are open. After the frenetic activity of campaign week, these three days always feel calm, and peaceful.  &#8221;Election? Really? Oh, right, I dimly recall hearing something about that.&#8221;  Sure, for somewhere between 20-100 people (depending on the number of people personally invested in the results) it&#8217;s a time of anxious waiting.  For the Elections [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top 10 Platform Ideas of the 2011 DSU Elections</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/top-10-platform-ideas-of-the-2011-dsu-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/top-10-platform-ideas-of-the-2011-dsu-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome guest writer Henry Whitfield.  Henry is a generally respected commenter on punditry, very experienced with residence life on campus, and was under the microscope last year as a candidate in the DSU Elections. It&#8217;s a shame that each and every year, the Punditry comment section turns into a cesspool of anonymous complainers, attacks and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Loaded Ladle Referendum &#8211; Business Plan Summary</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/loaded-ladle-referendum-business-plan-summary/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/loaded-ladle-referendum-business-plan-summary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a tip from a student who emailed the DSU President and the Loaded Ladle to request copies of their business plan.  No one replied. (The loaded ladle DID add him to their mailing list and send him a campaign email.  He was not impressed.)  I appluaded his efforts, and was able to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>sources of information</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/sources-of-information/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/sources-of-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This won&#8217;t be news to all of you, but this post (or a version of it) will be &#8220;stickied&#8221; at the top of the page during the voting period in case anyone looking for information finds this site. You&#8217;ll find links to the dsuelections.ca profiles, Facebook groups, candidate websites, and Twitter feeds in the sidebar [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>presidential word clouds 2011</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/presidential-word-clouds-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/presidential-word-clouds-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction of Presidential word clouds proceeded as normal &#8211; at first (what&#8217;s a word cloud?).  Hillman&#8217;s famed 11-page manifesto clocked in at 3,862 words, Fiszman at 1,552, and Saulnier at 1,227.  Each word cloud includes 135 words (based on how many words appear more than once in Saulnier&#8217;s platform). I did Hillman first, and was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>election event: wine &amp; cheese</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/election-event-wine-cheese/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/election-event-wine-cheese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last remaining official campaign event is the Elections Breakfast, March 7, 8:30am &#8211; 10:30am, SUB Lobby. Eric announced Kandidates Karaoke, tonight (Friday) at 8pm in the Grad house. A third event, also &#8216;unofficial&#8217; but no less brilliant, is being hosted by the Dal Undergrad Poli Sci society: a Wine &#38; Cheese Meet &#38; Greet. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>opinion pieces</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/opinion-pieces/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/opinion-pieces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The twitter-scape-osphere was alive this morning with debate about the Loaded Ladly Levy articles that appeared in the Gazette: Anti-levy and Anti-Dalhousie Liberty Society.  The conversation actually included comments on whether there was libel. The two protagonists tweet as @michaelmkennedy and @justin_ling. I won&#8217;t get into the contents of the article, but two things struck me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>VP SL Word Clouds</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/vp-sl-word-clouds/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/vp-sl-word-clouds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word clouds are visual representations of individual, context-less words from a body of text.  They can be useful for identifying themes, repeated word, and so forth.  They are especially useful for very long documents you don&#8217;t want to read in their entirety, but are fun for shorter documents as well. This set is for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>community standards?</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/community-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/community-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The middle of a very busy campaign period may not be the best time to ask this question, but&#8230; this is when people read the site. The punditry editorial policy, such as it is, has been in place since the beginning: anonymous comments are allowed , and no comments are censored or edited.  Pundits, once [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Poster Reviews 2011</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/poster-reviews-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/poster-reviews-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome John Packman, former Dal Gazette Editor-in-chief and photo editor, in this guest post commenting on the 2011 Posters.  John is a photographer who has a photo blog.  If any candidates or graphic designers feel insulted by his comments, I have two words: ad hominem. I&#8217;ll get you started: John graduated from Kings.  Go forth! Fiszman [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>the untold story</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/the-untold-story/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/the-untold-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at punditry.ca, we like to dig deeper.  We ask the tough questions, raise the difficult issues, and discuss the thorniest of problems.  Naturally, we&#8217;re also top-notch spell checkers and are capable of taking pedantry, hair-splitting, and fine distinction-ing to whole new levels. But it is in the spirit of those more nobler attributes that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>candidate poster extravaganza</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/candidate-poster-extravaganza/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/03/candidate-poster-extravaganza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Update 5:03pm: added poster for No campaign to Loaded Ladle referendum). Using the usual punditry metric (WTFs/hour), it&#8217;s going to be an oustanding campaign period. Candidate websites are going up (see links to right; WTFs/hour: 9). The official profiles, photos, and videos are up at dsuelections.ca. (WTFs/hour: 31) And here on punditry, for your viewing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>speaking of pre-campaigning</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/02/speaking-of-pre-campaigning/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/02/speaking-of-pre-campaigning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is indeed a no-campaign for the Loaded Ladle referendum question. They&#8217;ve jumped the gun a bit and launched their Twitter account and Facebook page a day before campaigning starts.  Word is they aren&#8217;t an officially registered referendum campaign team, you can probably expect commentary to follow on what that means.  There isn&#8217;t a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>hypothetically speaking</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/02/hypothetically-speaking/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/02/hypothetically-speaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, reading week.  While some students escape to warmer climes, and others don PJs and curl up in front of the gently flickering television, and still others work feverishly at minimum wage so they can afford the remainder of the semester, the brave and hopeful contenders in the coming election are diligently preparing their campaigns. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Referendum Questions</title>
		<link>http://punditry.ca/2011/02/referendum-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://punditry.ca/2011/02/referendum-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I posted the candidates list, I forgot to add the two referendum questions.  They&#8217;ve already come up vaguely in conversation; here&#8217;s a quick rundown of what people are talking about.  There were rumours of a &#8220;no&#8221; campaign for at least one of these; any news there? Loaded Ladle Loaded Ladle is a food cooperative; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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