Seriously, she doesn't even have confidence in her ability to win. She says Seattleites will vote her in because they are desperate. Best economy in year. Economic mobility has never been better. Opportunity is everywhere in Seattle.

Seriously sounds like she doesn't even really want to be mayor. Moon, are you just bored, and needed to do something with your time?

Exactly, other than a failed bid to shut down a capital infrastructure project 10 years ago, what has Moon done to make her worthy of being our Mayor? Does a self-financed campaign really make her more “of the people” than a so-called establishment candidate who has the confidence of the City’s business community? I don’t Love that Seattle has elected complete newbies to both spots on the general election, but Durkan has clearly out-experienced/out-qualified her opponent here.

"I like to be careful and thoughtful and intentional about what I'm proposing and how I speak about it," she told me later. "That pace is not what campaigning is, so I always feel rushed."

How will a candidate that is uncomfortable with the pace of campaigning be able to keep up with the pace of work in the mayor's office?

Your continued support of this totally unqualified and unprepared candidate is embarrassing. Seattle deserves better. VOTE DURKAN!!!

But, Wait! She already has a Transition Team. Remember that? She announced her TT in September wasn't it? How can she be behind? She has a Transition Team. Ha-Ha. Oh Well. I guess that was pretty presumptuous thing for her to do. Durkan for the WIN!

Hey, maybe it's might finally dawned on people that Jessyn Farrell was the class of this crop of mayoral candidates, and that it wasn't even close. But of course it's 2017, and a pragmatic progressive with real positions and a track record of getting shit done doesn't have a natural constituency.

Really, the state of Seattle politics is not all that different from the state of national politics. You've got the Democratic Party, which is divided three ways between Clintonian corporate shills and "Medicare for all or Bust" idealists and POC sowers of ethnic grievance. And you've got the Republican Party, which is divided three ways between Bushian corporate shills and libertarian idealists and white sowers of ethnic grievance.

At least in Seattle, we're likely to get our own Hillary (Durkan) and she won't be facing an obstructionist City Council.

@5 Wow. What a time to be alive! Also: you're right. Still, I voted Moon. We don't need another corporate Democrat tool.

Blue Moon.

Ha! So much waisted time and digital ink on a loser. Be proud, The Stranger, be proud.

Agree with many of what these comments are saying. But there's a problem...are you saying because of these criticisms about her energy and motivation that the only other choice is Durkan?

Durkan is a professional at the game of politics, of course she has more endorsements, more cash, and looks more put together. Oh, and what about being hard on issue that inner-Seattle residents want? Durkan has come out against Municipal internet (received money from CenturyLink).
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I'm definitely not a fan of the image that Moon brings, but I'd rather have her than the fake, political, image of Durkan.

@6 & @9, I appreciate your both supporting Moon, despite your reservations. Frankly, I'm undecided. I don't know if I can bring myself to vote for either of these candidates. By the same token, neither is a disaster. So it's not like I'm feeling compelled to vote for one candidate as a way of voting against the other.

I think Cary's Moon is less waning than eclipsed.

@10 Much appreciate your observations here: tough but honest.

Never forget that it was the big money Democratic establishment that delivered this country to Trump. If you always do, what you you've always done, you'll always get what you you've always gotten. Send a message. Resist. Vote Moon!

Why would anyone be stoked about Durkan, the candidate of keeping things exactly as they are, is likelier to win? It's not as though anyone but Amazon and the banks have any reason to think Durkan is on their side?

What good ever comes of making the dreariest, most passionless choice possible?

Durkan's slogan might just as well be "Same as it ever was!....Same as it ever was!...Same as it ever was!...Same..as...it...ever...was!"

Enjoy the stasis, I guess.

For what it’s worth, I was at a friend’s house this weekend watching the Seahawks, and a bunch of my horrible, bigoted, white, middle-aged, single-family-home-owning friends say that they’re probably going to vote for Durkan because they think Cary Moon is (1) wishy-washy; (2) a “deer in the headlights”; and (3) will kowtow to Nikkita Oliver any time Oliver disagrees with Moon’s policies.

So Moon would cap the number of Uber drivers? Watch them pull out of Seattle so fast her airy little head would spin. Especially if the union thing happens. And then how are all the millennials going to get around town? It's just typical of the ignorant nonsense we can expect from someone who described herself on donation forms as "unemployed."

#15:

Somewhat better than "Burning Down the House," which is what we'd get with an Oliver fuelled Moon regime.

Judging by these comments by her supporters, I see my analysis of Durkan = HRC is spot on.

Level the playing field with taxis? So Uber, Lyft, Wingz will have to provide the same sh*tty, over priced service, never show up on time and pretend their credit card readers don't work?

Brilliant. Let's bring back horse and buggies while we're at it, they deserve state protection too. Protect those stable hands jobs.

Durkan = HRC is spot on.

So, Moon/Oliver = Trump incompetence.

...reduced to spouting SJW pablum in a feeble attempt to cobble together a coalition of the City's various pouty have-nots.

That's the best one-line description of Moon's "campaign", especially in response to Oliver's repeated public verbal abuse of Moon, that I have yet read.

Gee, y'all couldn't have picked up on some of these weaknesses before you endorsed her?

Wow, I don't agree with this analysis at all. I actually think Moon's gonna take it. If she gets Olivers, McGinn's, and Hasegawa's voters, as well as some of Farrell's, and benefits from the fact that general elections have have a younger and more progressive group of voters, she could easily win. And as someone who's been on a lot of campaigns, the landline-effect is real. Furthermore Seattle isn't really a city as swayed by political ads and money as some other places are, people here actually read stuff. I put my money on Moon at this point.

Classic dilettante. If she gets elected she will get bored quickly and then swan off to spend her private wealth.

Kris @25: Gee, y'all couldn't have picked up on some of these weaknesses before you endorsed her?

Let's imagine an alternate reality where The Stranger endorses Nikkita Oliver and she makes it through to the general. Then right about now the refrain would have been: Gee, y'all couldn't have picked up on some of these weaknesses before you endorsed her?

The more things might've changed...

Oh, and I have no idea who's winning. For all I know, David Trujillo @26 is right about Moon's prospects.

Moon is better than Durkan, but it's still hard to fathom why the SECB felt it had to stop Oliver. And it probably was the SECB that stopped her. The margin between Moon and Oliver was narrow enough that the Stranger endorsement could have tipped the balance.

If she gets Olivers, McGinn's, and Hasegawa's voters, as well as some of Farrell's, and benefits from the fact that general elections have have a younger and more progressive group of voters,

Since losing the primary election, Oliver has been telling anyone who might have voted for her not to vote for Moon. Torturing our common English language to call Moon's words "racist" was a very clear signal, from a self-described "queer black woman of color," that Moon was not fit to receive votes.

...but it's still hard to fathom why the SECB felt it had to stop Oliver.

A better question would be why the SECB thought Durkan wasn't the better option, but Oliver campaigned completely unprepared even to engage in meaningful dialog on our civic issues, let alone to provide any solutions.

The margin between Moon and Oliver was narrow enough that the Stranger endorsement could have tipped the balance.

It was narrow enough for almost any factor to be decisive. Oliver's shameless lack of preparation was another such factor. Blaming external factors for the weaknesses of a candidacy rarely produces better candidates.

#30: Why should the SECB ever have endorsed the candidate of Amazon and the rest of the corporadoes? The person backed by the 1% is never going to be on the side of the 99%.