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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Congratulations to Bill Haslam for his winning campaign for mayor of Knoxville. Random thoughts about the mayoral race:
Madeline Rogero was outspent $580K to $155K and yet only lost by less than 2000 votes.
Rogero won more precincts than did Haslam. In an "electoral college", Haslam would be the equivalent of Al Gore.
Bill Lyons was quoted as saying that it was "closer than he expected". Maybe that should tell the political establishment something.
Haslam won the suburbs. Rogero won the city proper. The disconnect between the two has never been so well illustrated.
Speaking to a few friends of mine, I am convinced that Madeline's "living wage" proposal was a big reason that some people didn't vote for her who otherwise would have.
Anything is better than Victor Ashe.
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Dave
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