I just voted. Go vote!
I’m surprised that there hasn’t been any formal betting going on as to who’s going to win the UBC AMS elections of 2009. Here are my predictions (not necessarily who I voted for … in most cases actually, I like rooting for the underdog).
- President: Blake Frederick will beat Alex Monegro by a hair, unless enough commerce kids are rallied to get off their blackberries for a second and vote. I wish Paul got involved with the AMS earlier. Charisma + experience = success.
- VP Academics and University Affairs: Johannes Rebane, with Sonia Purewal as a close second thanks to the condorcet voting system
- VP External: Tim Chu, because his facebook group has double Iggy Rodriguez’s number 🙂
- VP Administration: Tristan Markle, followed by Crystal Hon who try as she might would not awaken the “silent majority”. Kommander Keg will draw a significant number of votes and inspire a revival in future ams elections.
- VP Finance: Tom Dvorak, due to prettiness (haha OH GENEVIEVE!)
- Board of Governors: Andrew Carne for sure, call it intuition, everyone else iffy
- Student Legal Fund Society: no idea, half the candidates didn’t even bother sending in write-ups for the AMS page, are we talking about activism here?! To quote Genevieve, “It will be the six people that manage to get all of their roommates to vote for them”.
- Voter-funded Media: UBC Insiders takes a huge chunk out of the money pot for its long establishment. The Devil’s Advocate and The Radical Beer Tribune draw similar number of votes. The UBC Spectator falls a nice fourth and AMS Gossip Guy is swarmed by crazy GG fans dressed in skanky private school outfits and red tights, never to be seen again.
Don’t want the chips to fall this way? VOTE TODAY.
Never to be seen again? Gossip Guy will be here for years to come… long after people figure out how truly terrible the show is, and the network cancels it.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Phoebe!
Thanks for your support!
</3 Ouch you don’t think we’ll do any better than that?! =( Who else offers you videos of jello wrestling?! And analytical discussion of candidates’ sweaters?! Tu m’as faite de la peine, mon amie.
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how much did they pay you to predict them as winning? since people who read your blog will vote for them as to not side with the losing team
@Justin
From you guys’ recent performance on Votermedia, I frankly wouldn’t be surprised if UBC Spectator places first. Speaking of which, I must
coerceconvince more people to vote for me!@Brian
YOU MEAN I COULD’VE MADE MONEY OUT OF THIS?! Drats!!!
Phoebe, you’re not the only one 😉
Should I lose though, I fully plan on staying involved in some capacity. 🙂
@Phoebe
YAY! Thanks for the vote of confidence. 🙂 We like you enough that we’ve linked to you from our page (for a while now, since we like to keep our friends close and our enemies…er…competitors closer). Happy elections period.
@Justin
Then I must belong in the “friends” category for I haven’t entered the VFM contest. Just a happy spectator =D
@Pheebs (Can I call you that?)
Heh of course we’re friends now. The bloggers that tease candidates together, stay together.
Glad you like the epic video. I found Gerald’s epic photos and imposed some epic muzak on them. 😀
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