British Columbia Municipal Elections 2014

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A few years ago Christy Clark wanted to be the NPA candidate for mayor of Vancouver. She lost the nomination. The NPA is still very much a farm team for the BC Liberals. Gregor Robertson was an NDP mla before being elected mayor for Vision Vancouver.

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Gregor Roberston might be a federal Liberal though. At least he has been rumoured to run for the Libs.

Apparently he came very close to running for the BC NDP leadership this year too. I get the impression that he is a bit of a left-of-centre opportunist who will run for whichever party he thinks is better positioned to win. But the fact that he is running for re-election as mayor of Vancouver in the fall of 2014 suggests he would not quit and run federally less than a year later.

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Surrey has a gigantic indo-Canadian population and I wonder if they are adequately represented in an online panel...that could underestimate support for Rasode.

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Is it safe to say that Hepner is the left wing candidate, McCallum the right wing candidate, and Rasode is more... populist?

I'm not so sure about that. I thought I had read that Heppner AND McCallum were rightwing candidates with Conservative party ties and that Rasode was backed by NDPers and a lot of Liberals.