Looking up a different story, I learned that I screwed up on the last 3rd ward election. Republicans DIDN'T get 1,029 votes. Fred Askew didnt RUN as a Republican. Oops! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * My surmise on the turnout is TOO many candidates. The choices are just too muddled together. This is a sure way to turn off people who are barely involved anyway. You may think 2 percent and 4 percent is low. But check the turnout on a regular off-year election and it isn't that much higher. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Looks to me from the results site that Moore and Samuels easily outdistanced everyone else, leaving the lone Republican way behind. So much for the "Republican wave". I think if Republicans want to have any chance, they have to learn what John V. Lindsay long ago and Michael Blumberg today know: Big city Republicans can't echo Bush. Not even in Bush's own state.
===== Jim Mork----Cooper Neighborhood "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God"--Matthew 5:9 United for Peace http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
