Jacksonville Mayoral election 2015

[Tacachale]

It's just campaign rhetoric catering to the base. I'm sure you've seen it before. In fact, I know you have: it's the same thing Brown did by taking a sudden left turn on the HRO, Obamacare, and the minimum wage (!) after four years of carrying conservative anti-tax water.

[Tacachale]

It's just campaign rhetoric catering to the base. I'm sure you've seen it before. In fact, I know you have: it's the same thing Brown did by taking a sudden left turn on the HRO, Obamacare, and the minimum wage (!) after four years of carrying conservative anti-tax water.

He probably wasn't very busy, trying to figure out how to run a city in the aftermath of a global economic collapse and a governor that was busy cutting state funding to the city, turning down infrastructure projects and in general lessening the available tools to work with.

Apparently, he was too busy for most things.

This is actually one of my major issues with Brown. Everything that goes wrong is somebody else's fault, though he's happy to take credit for anything that goes right, regardless of whether he had anything to do with it.

A governor it bears reminding, who Lenny Curry took credit for getting elected during his speech last night.  In fact it was the preamble to his declaration of war on ObamaCare.

Yeah, yeah. So what are Alvin's plans for saving UF Health, then?

[Tacachale]

Say what? I don't follow.

[Cheshire Cat]

As of today at this time there have been 73,435 votes cast in this election cycle.


Democrats                    32,784      votes
Republicans                   32,191
Other                              8,460


Mail in votes                 41,118
Early voting                  32,272
Provisional                          45


There have been    70,583 absentee ballots requested to date.  There are currently 29,465 that have yet to be returned.

[Cheshire Cat]

As of today at this time there have been 73,435 votes cast in this election cycle.


Democrats                    32,784      votes
Republicans                   32,191
Other                              8,460


Mail in votes                 41,118
Early voting                  32,272
Provisional                          45


There have been    70,583 absentee ballots requested to date.  There are currently 29,465 that have yet to be returned.

'other' has been a codeword for disaffected libertarians in recent years.  They tend to be socially liberal.

If the main voter appeal has been taxes, then it looks skewed to Lenny. But if the main issue has been the HRO then Alvin has more reason to feel optimistic.

This race will be hard to read right up until the totals are in.  I don't see anything big recently, including last nights debate that will actually change voters opinions.  At this point many people are still unsure of what to do and another debate won't clear it up either.  Both Brown and Curry simply do not answer the hard questions directly and revert to their well worn sound bites.  It was amazing and distressing to listen to them both talk around or ignore the questions put to them and go off on an unrelated tangents down to a whiney he is picking on me refrain. lol  Makes my head hurt really.  Until the voters open their eyes to politics as usual in Jacksonville we will continue to see weak platforms, big promises and lots of hype during campaigns and very little in the way of real information.  That aspect of the campaign ended when Bill Bishop was no longer in the race.  That is not at all surprising and is painful to think about but I understand that in this city the real important changes in political depth and understanding will continue to come in small increments over time.  Funny really, we want to rush to greatness yet fail to demand greatness in those who represent us.