Tuesday, October 26, 2010

We wuz robbed!


Here are the unofficial results.

No Good Assholes

Rob Ford
380,201
47.098%
George Smitherman
287,393
35.602%
Joe Pantalone
94,840
11.749%
Rocco Rossi
4,973
0.616%

Crazy Third Party Guys

George Babula
3,242
0.402%
Rocco Achampong
2,781
0.345%
Abdullah-Baquie Ghazi
2,746
0.34%
Michael Alexander
2,452
0.304%
Vijay Sarma
2,233
0.277%
1,876
0.232%
Jaime Castillo
1,862
0.231%
Dewitt Lee
1,685
0.209%
Douglas Campbell
1,420
0.176%
Kevin Clarke
1,400
0.173%
Joseph Pampena
1,308
0.162%
David Epstein
1,198
0.148%
Monowar Hossain
1,186
0.147%
Michael Flie
1,178
0.146%
Don Andrews
1,023
0.127%
Weizhen Tang
885
0.11%
Daniel Walker
795
0.098%
Keith Cole
794
0.098%
Michael Brausewetter
791
0.098%
Barry Goodhead
736
0.091%
Charlene Cottle
730
0.09%
Tibor Steinberger
729
0.09%
Christopher Ball
690
0.085%
James Di Fiore
649
0.08%
Diane Devenyi
627
0.078%
John Letonja
587
0.073%
Himy Syed
576
0.071%
Carmen Macklin
565
0.07%
Howard Gomberg
472
0.058%
David Vallance
442
0.055%
Mark State
433
0.054%
Phil Taylor
425
0.053%
Colin Magee
397
0.049%
Selwyn Firth
392
0.049%
Ratan Wadhwa
288
0.036%
Gerald Derome
249
0.031%

Quick Analysis

As predicted by nearly anyone with two brain cells to rub together, none of the Crazy Third Party Guys finished in the top three. Surprisingly people no longer even standing for mayor outpolled the Crazy Third Party Guys. None of the Crazy Third Party Guys even managed to get half a percentage of votes. George Babula did the best at 0.4% Props for getting the five-pin bowling crowd out to the polling stations. Wonder if the Big Babula Machine can pull it off in 2014?

Alas, the 11th hour endorsement of Daniel Walker didn't manage to get him to out poll Don Andrews, pride of the white community. Andrews got 0.127% this year but in 2003 he got 0.17% of the vote. Did Förd rob him of 18 angry white men votes? Or are Andrews' constituents dying off of lung and liver cancer, as one would expect.

Most surprising was John Letonja's homeopathic numbers. 587? Really? The guy invented his own ball game, for christ's sake! He totally worked the blogs too, popping up hither and dither. A big deal was made out of Calgary's surprise mayoral victory and the power of social media. I guess Toronto just hasn't caught on.

Phil Taylor, despite having a very nice red tie, the endorsement of some guy in the Filipino community, and a playbook pulled right out of his ground breaking self-help power book Set Yourself on Fire, managed just a bit more than half of a half of a percentage. Phil, what's your secret? Self-help talking candidate Diane Devenyi bested Phil by a couple hundred votes.

Michael Alexander who had no web site, no social media presence, no platform, and even no known photograph of himself beat Diana and Phil's votes combined, winding up in the top 10 and even ahead of non-candidate Sarah Thomson. A stunning victory for people who come in at the top of the ballot order. Yes, there are over two thousand people walking the streets of Toronto that remain undecided until election night, still show up at the polls, and eventually just vote for one of the first names they see as they scan down the ballot.

Monowar Hossain whose platform had something or another to do with horses and ruling ideologies got comfortably over 1,000 votes. The Manowar fans truly turned out this election cycle.

I'm greatly saddened Ratan Wadhwa, the last man in the world to be sporting a Hitler moustache, fared so badly, coming in second last. It would appear Toronto is not ready for a 3P economy (porn, prostitutes, and pot) and it won't be ready for quite some time.

Finally, Vijay Sarma, who thinks feminism is a global conspiracy and 9/11 was an inside job and coffee enemas are a crackerjack treatment for cancer and...well there is no end to his inanity… got multiples of a thousand in votes, even if that multiple is 2.