I’ll post my recap of the Presidential Debate later this afternoon, I promise. There’s still one more day of voting left, and I really can’t resist the urge to ask Debo what the heck was with the 5 (non-reusable) cups of tea/coffee.
In other news, for those of you who don’t incessently troll the comments like I do, SMAC is having an information shin-dig outside the Killam library TODAY at 4:00pm. I, for one, would not miss this for the world. The last time SMAC had a “public” organizing meeting, all accounts (I wasn’t there) were that the perceived “pro DSU” types found themselves not welcome. Let’s see if “fostering critical thought” works both ways for SMAC this afternoon…
These days of voting seem to drag on. Everyone is done campaigning and just wants the whole business to be over, ideally with their preferred names at the top of the ballot.
Just over 38 hours to go; in the meantime, here are the day’s events.
- A day of endorsements on punditry.ca; scroll down for details.
- 30 predictions of winners in so far; it’s not too late to make your own. Seeing surprising agreement on the winners given what we thought were close races. Also, some of our loyal readers, whom we love, are clearly nuts, and others are not very good with The Maths. Deadline is 6pm today.
- Two fines were handed down by the elections committee today, $20 to Snow and $10 to LeForte. Neither of them is in any way close to disqualification, but I’m sure Snow would rather use the $20 to buy any 5 things from this list.
- I can now tell you that 311 students voted in the advance polling on Friday. No totals available for today.
- I took a look through my files, and the last time a referendum question asked for the ability to raise premiums it won 65-35. The time limit on that question was “until the academic year 2007-2008″. I sincerely hope the price of DSU’s health plan didn’t go up this year in direct contravention to the Will Of The Students.
- The latest updates re SMAC, which has somehow become relevant in this election:
- I’m told SMAC, the force behind the controversial AGM motions, has emerged from the shadows with an official website. Right now that domain name is actually a redirect to http://no-atlantica.org/smobilize/, use the direct link if you hate it (as I do) when URL masking is used.
- By the way, I’ve heard a lot of indignation and even anger from those astonished that people would associate SMAC with NSPIRG. Guys, when your website is hosted in parallel with an NSPIRG campaign, and your two contact people are (respectively) heavily involved in a NSPIRG working group and the founder of another NSPIRG campaign, you can’t be surprised when people draw a link. Do what you can to distance yourself, by all means, but “indignation” is the wrong emotion.
- That leads me to my question – if any SMAC people are around, what I’m looking for is a clear and simple answer: why not work through NSPIRG? Your contact people, at least, are both already closely associated with NSPIRG projects. You guys are ideologically in sync. They have funding and full-time staffers and office space. Making SMAC a working group of NSPIRG is almost an obvious decision to me. Why didn’t you?
- Last night I told you how voters decide for whom to vote. A related stat: the top 3 ways voters hear about elections for the first time are from the candidate directly (39%), from the posters on the walls (30%), and through word-of-mouth (21%). Yes folks, I’d say the primary driver of voter turnout is the candidates themselves.
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