Election Looming
The federal election is in 3 days and I realize now that if you want to be an informed voter, you have to do a lot of foot work. This is work I haven’t had time to do.
As for the candidates, they haven’t gone out of their way to contact me. However, there are 115,000 of us to each one of them. Let’s take a closer look at this, though. Each candidate must have staff and volunteers that call around. If each major candidate has an average of 15 callers working per day, that’s 45 callers. Say they can make 6 calls per hour and work 2 hours a day. That’s 540 calls a day. If they worked 30 days prior to the election, they can reach 16,200 people, or 14% of the electorate.
I guess it’s no surprise I haven’t been contacted. But, the fact is I was contacted, but by the candidate from the wrong riding who had us at some other address.
I’ve also been looking for polling results from my riding, but my brief google search turned up nothing except last election’s results.