The preliminary results haven’t provided any surprises. The dumping of Alick Shaw and Jack Ruben being interesting and relieving respectively.
The mayoral ‘race’ presents a few lessons. The most stunningly obvious one is that being an incumbent helps. Kerry won by a mile and the next five slots were filled by the incumbent councillors (even Ruben!?!?). The classic effect of low turn-out.
McGrath has shown how not to run an expensive campaign (he may have spent nearly $20 a vote). The four last placings demonstrate that campaigning requires building a profile before and during the campaign.
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Skinny // 15 October, 2007 at 8:26 pm |
Poor old Jack…I didn’t even bother to see if he’d gotten through as a councilor.
Your observations about being an incumbent, and/or well known (as an incumbent councilor) are sad, but true. As for John McGrath – it’s much harder becoming mayor than running a restaurant.