City Nerd Awards: Polling Update

Well, about a week into the City Nerd Award polling, and the results are showing some interesting things about online voters. I wonder how many are sticking to the principal that the awards are to be given to the nominee that best reflects the four City Nerd criteria:

-passion for Los Angeles

-knowledge of Los Angeles

-promotion of Los Angeles

-actual positive contributions to Los Angeles


Take a look at the screen shots below to understand more fully what's going on here...

First, look at the Neighborhood Councils:
(You'd thing that at least each member would vote for their own Council.)


Then, if you look at the Elected Official category, you can see that the Mayor is still quite popular, but what about the others, do they embody the spirit of the City Nerd Awards?
Some say LaBonge is the real City Nerd, knowing all the nooks and crannies of the City, its operation, and its history. Well, that's definitely not reflected here, unless there is some campaigning going on???)


Finally, looking at the Elected Officials Staff category - it is the highest number of votes of any category: 972!
There must be some email campaigning going on here. Even the "Blogger" and "Blog" categories, which have a built in readership, don't have this many votes. It's just feeds the notion that Elected Official staffers love the politics of it all. (And there are some staffers who must still be on vacation and haven't even voted for themselves.)

Well, regardless of how the voting has trended so far, there are still 9 categories that need to be voted on - go vote now!