The quote above is from New Castle County Council member Jea Street. In a August 9, 2012 News-Journal article about the City of Wilmington’s impact on the New Castle County Executive’s contest street implied that it is possible to win the City of Wilmington by such a large margin that the candidate could afford to lose suburban and rural New Castle County and still win.
It sounds good, but how true is it? at Politics by the Numbers Tobin crunches the numbers and looks at a some races that put the lie to Street’s axiom.