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Wilmington: The Young Future
I have developed a new love of maps, and will be preparing several showing other races. But here is a map of Wilmington showing Young’s strength in the city. If my review of the data is correct, Eugene Young either came in first, second or third place in all but one small district of the city. The first place finishes are colored in gold, the second place finishes in yellow, and the third place finishes in a light yellow. It shows you what Cassandra was saying earlier: his campaign was city wide and pretty damn spectacular. Young was competitive in all parts of the city. He will be back.
The Correct Wilmington Election Map
Click on the image for the large version. Hey, DOE, where is the missing 14th Election District of the 4th RD? Your raw data reports contain no information concerning this district. I sense a conspiracy of biblical proportions (but given the district’s placement, the votes likely benefit Purzycki or Kelley).
A City Divided by Quadrant [Or Maybe Not [Updated]]
The News Journal’s Map of the Wilmington Mayoral Primary reveals a city divided almost exactly along its quadrant lines: is actually probably inaccurate given that the colors assigned to various districts do not correspond to the actual winners of those districts.
A larger version of the map with the data is here.
I will be crafting a new map today. Stay tuned.
Open Thread for Thursday, September 15, 2016
A Washington Post editorial says even Trump’s charity is a scam:
“Mr. Trump has cultivated the persona of a generous man, repeatedly claiming on television he would donate to charity “out of my wallet” and accepting honors from groups he appeared to support. In fact, an exhaustive investigation by Post reporter David A. Fahrenthold shows that Mr. Trump retooled his foundation about a decade ago to act as an intermediary for other people’s charitable giving, a racket from which Mr. Trump gained in reputation and from which he may even have occasionally profited.”
“Mr. Trump does not appear to have given his own money to the Trump Foundation since 2008, and by then Trump funds had become a tiny slice of the organization’s revenue. Since then, the available records suggest, a charitable group that bears the billionaire’s name has been funded by others. That has not stopped Mr. Trump from claiming credit for doling out other people’s cash.”
Comment Rescue: Who Won Where
From commenter Marcellus Wallace, who may need to get a promotion to contributer here at DL after this analysis he just posted this evening:
I believe LBR is a nice woman with legitimate high-level government experience and great potential. But her public performances (and lack thereof) left the impression that she is not ready for prime time, to put it charitably. I wanted to figure out how she won so convincingly. So I made sweet Excel love to the district-level data on the Department of Elections’ web page, so you don’t have to. My takeaways are below. Please note: the data is the data, but the conclusions are mine.
For starters, it would be easy to say that LBR won because of strong support in the City and surrounding areas, and that is true. But the real story is that she administered a broad-based, statewide ass kicking. All told, LBR won 28 of the 41 RDs statewide. In 13 of those 28 RDs, LBR earned more votes than Townsend and Barney combined.
The Day After
I purposefully did not make any projections or predictions myself before the election this year, because in three of the races we had 6 or more candidate fields, and in the other races I cared about we had entrenched corrupt incumbents who have won against all odds before. So at least I don’t look like somewhat of a fool today for making a wrong prediction. LOL.
Still, I am disappointed that Townsend did not win the Congressional race. I am disappointed that Young did not win the Mayoral race in Wilmington. At least, with both races, there are some consolation prizes available. Bryan Townsend is still a State Senator, a leader of progressive policies in Dover, and has a bright future. Hopefully Tom Carper retires in 2018. And I have no problems with voting enthusiastically for Lisa Blunt Rochester. She has my full support. In Wilmington, at least Dennis P. Williams, that arrogant yet ignorant Mayor-King, is gone. And Eugene Young will be back. Indeed, perhaps, in his admitted need for outreach to the communities, the potential Mayor-elect Mike Purzycki can bring Young into his administration.
So enough of the disappointments. Time to celebrate. Tom Gordon is gone, praise Jesus. And we are replacing him with a honorable man devoted to public service. I cannot wait to see how Matt Meyer does in office. Karen Weldin Stewart is gone! Hopefully we get a true consumer advocate in the office in the form of Trinidad Navarro.
And we get a chance to wipe the slate clean at both the county and city level. And we get to do it on Democratic terms. For decades, it has been the same old faces. And I worried that those same old faces would eventually hang around long enough and screw up enough to hand the county and state to the Republicans. We don’t have to worry about that for now. The One Party State has been saved because the Democratic Party, internally, took care of its business. Pay attention, John Daniello. That is why primaries are important. Sometimes they are needed to clean out the stink.
Open Thread for Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Incomes in the U.S. surged in 2015, delivering the first increase for family households in eight years, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The median annual household income—the level at which half are above and half are below—rose 5.2% from a year earlier, or $2,800, after adjusting for inflation, to $56,500… The boost leaves household incomes around 1.6% below the 2007 level, before the last recession began.”
Thanks Obama.
Election Night Results Thread
Polls close at 8 pm. Here is the link for the official Commissioner of Elections Results page. Below, I will try to keep the main offices results updated as results come in, but I will be at the Townsend Party at the Mill, and I am Pandora and Cassandra will be at the Eugene Young party. Post any results or observations below in the comments.
Open Thread for Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Byron York: “Could there be a clunkier phrase than ‘basket of deplorables’? Hillary Clinton’s assertion that half — or maybe something less than half — of Donald Trump’s supporters are ‘racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it’ struck a lot of observers as not just an odd turn of phrase but politically unwise. You attack your opponent, the idea was, but you don’t attack the voters.”
“But now, a few days later, the brilliance of Clinton’s remark is becoming clearer. Yes, she got a few liberal commentators to take her side and defend the substance of it. But the far bigger benefit is that in the wake of her comment, some media figures decided to devise a ‘deplorables’ quiz for Trump supporters. Is Person X deplorable? How about Person Y? The effect was to pressure Trump supporters not only to agree with Clinton’s larger point but with her precise terminology.”
I never thought it was a “gaffe.” Yes, in the beltway media’s mind, it is. Hillary knew that and knew that racists cannot stand being called racists. So she knew Trump would devote this week to attacking her for saying it. And so now we are talking about how evil, bigoted, sexist and racist Trump’s supporters are. All week. It is brilliant.
Reminder: Our Delaware Liberal Endorsements for Today
CONGRESS: Bryan Townsend
COUNTY EXECUTIVE: Matthew Meyer
WILMINGTON MAYOR: Eugene Young
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER: Trinidad Navarro
STATE SENATOR, 9TH DISTRICT: Caitlin Olsen
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 10TH DISTRICT: Sean Matthews
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 14TH DISTRICT: Don Peterson
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