Originally Posted by dear giant:
The other way to see it is that CY Leung got a majority of the non-blank votes cast and so is preferable to either of the other two candidates, especially to the only pro-democracy candidate who came in a distant third.
Would it have killed the 50% of the people casting ballots to have removed their heads from their anuses for once and voted for the pro-democracy candidate?
Only a split second of mental clarity was required (Send the signal to BJ and the world that HKers want democracy rather than reinforcing the idea that HKers are scatterbrained and just like to kick up a fuss). Alas, it seems that I was expecting too much.