Well, I'm more progressive than centrist, and I put mine in the mail yesterday.

Balducci is way more “progressive” on transit than Girmay. (Also. the term is meaningless).

Sending love and warmest wishes from Beacon Hill: go grab yourself some hot spiced apple cider at Perihelion, just don't park at the Red Apple. They don't like that.

I am an old person who has had a long day and am going to bed. I’m thrilled about all the Democratic Candidate victories on the east coast, especially NYC mayor elect Mandami.

And I’ll quietly murder that I don’t believe that Katie Wilson is a Zohran Mandami. If she wins, maybe I’ll be proved wrong. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Lake Hills is one of the farthest flung locations?? Really?? You guys got to get out more.

go Progs!

Yipee!

that's Okay, Katie!

One Door Shuts

( . . . Maybe . . . )

ANOTHER ONE
(or MORE!)
OPENS!

the World Knows
you Now. all that Learning's
placed you in a Very Good Place

(even if it isn't sitting
in the Top political
Spot in the City
by the Sea).

Well done!

and, at
least your
kid won't hafta
wear that dang dress!

Looks like whoever bet on Harrell on Polymarket might've won big.

Hell yeah!! That's right, how sweet this victory!!

A blue fucking wave AND Dick Cheney died? Sweet dreams, America!

NYC is a lost cause, but a great upset in Seattle.

I wouldn't be popping champagne corks at either Harrell or Wilson's campaign headquarters yet. Flaky people vote at the last minute, and that is Wilson's base.

If Harrell wins, that's.........fine. Another term with a competent, if uninspiring, Mayor. Probably no major shakeups. No department heads axed (even if they deserve it). Incremental change and all that.

If Wilson wins, it will be a wild ride. I'm afraid the special interest groups will fight for her attention, and that will be more than the usual catfight, because she probably won't have the wall of staff to help deflect. But the bureaucracy will continue, and if she gets even a few of her campaign promises halfway there, I'll be impressed.

So let's see what the next few days will bring.

@11: Yeah, lefties are really flakey.

At least they're not horrible people, like Republicans.

In 2019, Kshama Sawant was down 8.3% after the first ballot drop and wound up winning. Wilson is down 7.2% right now. The race is a coin flip.

Today's Wednesday, so Charles will be doing Slog AM and glorifying the socialist takeover of the world's most capitalist city.

@13: Yet I'm a Republican but not horrible, how can you explain that?

@14: I agree that either Harrell or Wilson could win. However, Sawant was in a single district, where the number of ballots needed to overcome a percentage deficit was far smaller. (Sawant then barely avoided recall during what became her final term, which makes for an example Wilson does not wish to emulate, methinks!)

The other day I saw a social media post with every single King Countyish Indigenous elected person and several other high-powered Indigenous people at a fund raiser for Harrell. That really said a lot to me.

In 2021, Bruce Harrell led Lorena Gonzalez by 29.6% after the first ballot drop. He wound up winning by 17.4%.

In 2017, Jenny Durkan led Cary Moon by 21% after the first ballot drop. She wound up winning by 12.4%.

Advantage Wilson.

@14/11 I think anything above a 10 point spread is usually safe so this race will come down to the wire. In 2021 when there was the pushback against the progressives from the BLM fiasco Harrell had an initial lead of 65-35 on election night and by the end it was 58-41 so Gonzales picked up 6 points at a time when progressives were out of favor. It's entirely possible Wilson will ride the progressive momentum and gain the necessary 8 points this year.