the web is for losers?

[psocoptera]

Out of nine candidates for the six "at large" seats on the local city council, three had websites.

They're the three who lost.

Hard to see that as an entire coincidence - I guess you only bother putting up a website if your chances are really slim? The top four of the winning six were the incumbents... and of course my two picks were numbers nine and eight.

And it was 10420 to 2031 against the property-tax reduction. I always have a hard time knowing what to do with things like that... if 5/6 of the population wants to make other 1/6 pay higher taxes than they feel are justified, well, in a straight fight the 1/6 wouldn't have much of a chance, at least it's a very civilized way to shake 'em down. Sure, sure, justice isn't a popularity contest, blah blah, but it's sort of sobering to stop and think that a situation that *would* be okay with the oppressed minority would dissatisfy the contented 5/6, and a system resulting in 5/6 dissatisfaction is arguably Not Working.

Ah well. Maybe someday I'll move to the Free State of New Hampshire and vote for a candidate who actually wins something, that'd be cool.

Comments

[elysdir.livejournal.com]

In our local elections for community-college board, there was one candidate who didn't bother including a candidate statement in the voting pamphlet. It turned out that he did have a website, and had answered a LWV questionnaire at Vote Smart, and actually turned out to fit my opinions reasonably well. But he came in last in voting; I'm guessing that was partly because there was no info about him at all in the printed voting pamphlet other than his name and maybe his profession.

[wayman.livejournal.com]

So maybe it's not "the Web is for losers", but "most candidates who use the Web all the time forget that most voters don't"?

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Hm. I never got a printed voting pamphlet or any kind of official communication at all; everything I knew about the election I knew from one mayoral candidate's advertising flyers and my own web research. Agreed that having a website isn't going to help you much if there's some even-easier mechanism for getting information...