One Last Look at the Mayor’s Race

1. I’m guessing that the abysmal turnout favors Mallahan over McGinn?

2. Let’s cross our fingers for a Mallhan/McGinn finish. That would be newworthy and might even spark interest amongst the votes.

3. You know, I really wanted to vote for someone besides Nickels because of his nightlife missteps, and because I’m sick of looking at his fat face.

   But McGinn doesn’t have the smarts or political skills to run a city, and Mallahan is, well, he’s no one in particular as far as I can tell, just another indistinguishable middle manager from our enormous crappy software company in Redmond.

   Nickels seems to have gotten the message about our city’s nightlife, so I’ll vote for him. Hopefully next time Steinbrueck will run.

4. The question is…is the Pick 2 working?

   Are Mallahan/McGinn similar verus Nickels/Drago?

   Or is it more McGinn with Mallahan/Nickels the same?

5. Suppose M & M do come out 1 & 2, can Nickels run as a write-in? Is that allowed in the Top2 system?

6. EEEEEEEEEK! Go Mike, go!

   Vote for McGinn!

7. Does McGinn get a bounce by being at the top of the ballot?

8. It’s going to be one of the M’s against Nickels. Which doesn’t much matter, because when it gets to the real election Nickels (whose numbers show he just isn’t hated enough) will easily beat his challenger. For all some people’s outrage, there’s no issue big enough to rally the normally apathetic majority. I’m not a Nickles booster, just someone looking realistically at human behavior, and you can put money down that it all shakes out this way.

9. I think it matters. They’ve already got a Gates-Lovin’ Gregoire in Olympia. I really don’t want the Borg having the Mayorship as well.

   I’d say vote for Nickles/McGinn before Mallahan.

10. District 9 – YEAH, finally the Eastside telling us what to do in voting as well as all other sectors of our quaint and un sophisicated lives.

    Clue bus seems to have been revived here on Slog – get on it. I live in the heart of metro Seattle and would not be buried on the Eastside. For starters, find me a gay bar in Remond, with all its money and closet cases. Ain’t one.

    I voted for Nickels, he can be reformed in his third term, the others are rank beginners. and stutter a lot when they have to answer even simple questions about the city. Mc Ginn in the best evasion says -“what would you do” – cause he like to listen. Sure, sure.

    No, no. The greenie talks tons of sky pie, little else. Of course my life is not ruled by the all white Sierra Club, creating wilderness for the rich to play in via float planes and exclusive enclaves.

    Nickels has just started to campaign as well. It will be an interesting run to the general.

11. Nickels may be enough of a pure politician to drop the whole Vulcan-Viaduct-Concrete-Condo-Light-Rail-Density paradigm now that the pendulum seems to be swinging away from Pugetopolis, and take up some sort of middle-class outrage; populist uprising; let’s stop talking about rich guys so much and create some 100K jobs platform.

12. Off Topic: Anthony Weiner stunned Joe Scarborough into being dumb silnece — not a mean feat — by explaining why medicare for all is the best plan by asking over and over, Joe, tell me, what value do insurance copmanies add when they take a piece of every medical cost transaction?
    Slog should get this tape put on about 5 minutes of it it’s the best explanation of the whole debate — as Scarborough said when lauding Weiner to the heavens, despite admitting he was opposing to everything he proposes. Weiner’s take is federal govt. is already the single payer for 40% of the market via medicare and other programs like vets, while medicare overhead is 4%, insurer overhead and profits are 30%, this is waste, they want a piece of every medical transaction but:

    what do you get for having money go from your pocket to insurer pocket to doctor’s pocket?

    Joe Scarboy had no answer. Stunned into silence.
    So then he lauded Weiner for being able to do that. Seriously, check out this tape. It’s the best ten minutes on health care you’ll ever see.

13. 12
    What value will the government add when they take a piece of every medical cost transaction?

14. re: mayors race-
    We’re SCREWED either way it goes

15. @13
    good question. The simple answer is you save the 26% differential, amigo, between the 4% on medicare and the 30% in private insurers. I can show you that math if you need me to, btw.

    Or looking at the big picture we see about 20-30 nations with national health finance systems and they pay 7-11% of gdp instead of our 16%. So the “value added” would be about 4-9% of the entire gross national product of the USA.
    That enough value for you?
    Thank you in advance for now supporting single payer/”socialism”/medicare for all, now that your question has been answered.

16. @12 – I’d really like to see that posted on slog, but maybe next time send it as a slog tip to Eli or Bryan instead of hijacking a comment thread?

    On topic: if it turns out to be one of the M’s vs. Nickels, I’d vote McGinn over Nickels, but Nickels over Mallahan. I’d prefer McGinn vs. Nickels, but with such low turnout I’m not holding my breath. @3 I saw Nickels at the U-District farmer’s market last Saturday morning. He actually looked like he might have lost a bit of weight.

17. Some statistical errors creep into their methodology, in that people with cellphones, especially pay per use ones, frequently don’t bother answering phone calls from pollsters, since they routinely block their numbers.

    Whereas old people with landlines tend to actually answer their phones (single women screen calls more, married people tend not to screen, men tend not to screen).

    Hence, in the modern age, the only poll that matters is whom amongst thou that castest thy ballots.

    If you’re saving the stamp, get it to the drop box by 5 pm. Stop waiting.

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