We never learn.

"A new poll by the Northwest Progressive Institute..."

Pffffft.

Bruce Harrell is just a bad mayor. Of course, most of our mayors are bad. I liked McGinn, and way back Norm Rice seemed good. But if you look at every other mayor, you can easily see why none of them won reelection.

@3: Greg Nickels says hello.

Bruce will win by double digits - it won’t be close.

A Tammy Morales endorsement? Yuck.

I guess my vote is for Harrell. I don't think he's done a bad job. The city is cleaner than it was under Durkin, but that's not saying much.

"...progressives like former City Councilmember Tammy Morales."

Quitters never lose! ;-)

@2: I love the statistical contortions required to justify the headline. May is too early for most voters to care about the August primary, and the poll and the poll accurately reflected that, so they fed those uncaring voters some information, which resulted in another undecided majority (!). From all this either the Stranger or the pollster wrangled a statistical tie, and the Stranger called it news. Whatever.

@5: So, this time, will the Stranger admit this ahead of Election Night, or will the Stranger again resist until reality bursts their Hoover Dam o' Denial, and then treat us to another delightfully epic meltdown? (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/11/03/62528438/five-takeaways-from-the-2021-seattle-elections)

Buddamat is right, regardless of what NPI's snap in time says, Harrell is gonna win this race with close to 60%. Ditto wins for Davison and Nelson.

Of the three, Nelson should be the most vulnerable - stupid priority setting early on things no one but Chris Gregoire and the Chamber asked for (restaurant minimum wage repeal, repeal of our comically weak renter protections), rather than focusing on homelessness and public safety, which is how we got a traditional liberal council, rather than a batshit one. But there's no juice in the candidate(s) taking her on.

Alexis may have no opponent, but don't be The Stranger and misread the electorate again. This isn't teeing up to be "Revenge of the Sawantistas". If you're gonna take on Bruce, you need a heavyweight and, whatever her merits, that's not Katie. That would have been Tammy...who elected not to make the race, which is a pretty loud silence.

Buddamat is right, regardless of what NPI's snap in time says, Harrell is gonna win this race with close to 60%. Ditto wins for Davison and Nelson.

Of the three, Nelson should be the most vulnerable - stupid priority setting early on things no one but Chris Gregoire and the Chamber asked for (restaurant minimum wage repeal, repeal of our comically weak renter protections), rather than focusing on homelessness and public safety, which is how we got a traditional liberal council, rather than a batshit one. But there's no juice in the candidate(s) taking her on.

Alexis may have no opponent, but don't be The Stranger and misread the electorate again. This isn't teeing up to be "Revenge of the Sawantistas". If you're gonna take on Bruce, you need a heavyweight and, whatever her merits, that's not Katie. That would have been Tammy...who elected not to make the race, which is a pretty loud silence.

@8 - Right

@9 - Right

It is weird that the MLK Labor Council refused to endorse an actual union leader.

@11 Katie Wilson is not a labor union leader. In fact a quick glance at her resume shows she has really never held a job, let alone one requiring labor.

Pretty accurate assessment.

That neither Tammy nor Teresa chose to challenge him suggests he will be pretty hard to beat. That I can’t think of many other far progressives with similar gravitas suggests the ‘21 election was not an anomaly.

@12 I think @11 is under the impression that being a "transit rider" is a job.

She's endorsed by Tammy Morales?

Is this the same Tammy Morales who destroyed the International District and Little Saigon?

The same Tammy who grew homelessness at a rate so fast that Seattle became 3rd in the nation?

The same Tammy who defunded the police that kicked off a crime wave that disproportionately affect BIPOC neighborhoods?

The same Tammy who barely got reelected and then turned her back on voter, quit, and went back to her multi-million-dollar home and life of privilege?

If so, we've tried loser politicians already. Katie Wilson should run for Mayor of Portland. They are still enamored with shinney worthless things.