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Election The Not-So-Close Mayor's Race
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM
In the name of pummeling a dead ungulate, the latest results from King County Elections show that Mike McGinn is now beating Joe Mallahan by 6,475 votes—a 3.2 percent lead—up from a 5,714 vote lead yesterday.
Fascinating facts: For comparison, Greg Nickels beat Mark Sidran by only 3,158 votes in 2001. But far fewer voters participated in that election. Only 176,800 Seattle ballots were cast eight years ago, compared with 212,498 this year.
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But how much has our population grown between those two periods?
You can't compare two populations without the baseline. Otherwise the comparison is invalid.
You can't compare two populations without the baseline. Otherwise the comparison is invalid.
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@1 yes you can, considering it only matters who votes. We don't count the assumed thoughts of non-voters. Dominic is trying to get at the relative percentages as compared to the total vote gap.
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@3:
You do realize they'd be doing this no matter who won in a close race like this, yes? Shut up and let the reporters do the reporting.
You do realize they'd be doing this no matter who won in a close race like this, yes? Shut up and let the reporters do the reporting.
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Our city has only grown by 50,000 folks at the MOST since 2001. I think it is actually a bit less than this.
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3.2% is pummeling? It should be a humbling!
McGinn and his ass-suckers at The Stranger need to realize, quickly and completely, that the Mayor-Elect has NO MANDATE and, in fact, should take the election results in thought.
McGinn BARELY won. He needs to understand that he does not have much 'real' political support and should start immediately building more of a consensus. He realized weeks ago that his idealistic views on transportation were BS and, only in Seattle, the voters refused to hold him accountable for waffling on the issues.
He got elected by playing groups against each other without really taking a stand... or even reversing his strongest stand!
I just really find it funny that everyone but The Stranger calls this a close race but the McGinn-Ass-Suckers at SLOG think it's an overwhelming victory....
McGinn and his ass-suckers at The Stranger need to realize, quickly and completely, that the Mayor-Elect has NO MANDATE and, in fact, should take the election results in thought.
McGinn BARELY won. He needs to understand that he does not have much 'real' political support and should start immediately building more of a consensus. He realized weeks ago that his idealistic views on transportation were BS and, only in Seattle, the voters refused to hold him accountable for waffling on the issues.
He got elected by playing groups against each other without really taking a stand... or even reversing his strongest stand!
I just really find it funny that everyone but The Stranger calls this a close race but the McGinn-Ass-Suckers at SLOG think it's an overwhelming victory....
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