Election Day Live Coverage

[Metro Jacksonville]

Election Day Live Coverage



First of all: GO VOTE!  We will be covering the election all day long from the annex HQ in Riverside with Ben America and analysis all day long.  Check here for constant updates and gossip from the campaigns as we will be monitoring the votes as they come in!  Cross your fingers for a Fool Free City Council!

Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2015-may-election-day-live-coverage

[coredumped]

Yes, vote vote vote!!!

Jerry Holland says we'll have a higher turnout than in March:

Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland is calling for 40- to 42-percent turnout before the polls close at 7 p.m. -- more than the primary in March and more than the city election four years ago.

Sunday night, when the 18 early voting places closed, more than 60,000 people had voted early and 46,500 more had mailed in absentee ballots with verified signatures.

http://www.news4jax.com/politics/40-turnout-expected-in-jacksonville-election/33086456

Good on Jax for being involved, let's see how high we can get the turnout.

[mtraininjax]

Interestingly enough, Twitter being used as a huge social media platform....yet Mayor Brown has had an account since 2010 and only has 1,179 tweets on one site and 4,000 on another and Curry with over 9000 tweets, but he has been tweeting since 2009.

https://twitter.com/AlvinForMayor?lang=en
https://twitter.com/MayorAlvinBrown?lang=en
vs
https://twitter.com/lennycurry?lang=en&lang=en


Interestingly enough Part 2.....you rarely see any ads or pictures of Alvin Brown and his family, but you see a ton of Curry and his amazing wife Molly, who is really as much about the campaign as Brown. Great job by Curry to get out and make women votes count too!

[TheCat]

Interestingly enough, Twitter being used as a huge social media platform....yet Mayor Brown has had an account since 2010 and only has 1,179 tweets on one site and 4,000 on another and Curry with over 9000 tweets, but he has been tweeting since 2009.

https://twitter.com/AlvinForMayor?lang=en
https://twitter.com/MayorAlvinBrown?lang=en
vs
https://twitter.com/lennycurry?lang=en&lang=en


Interestingly enough Part 2.....you rarely see any ads or pictures of Alvin Brown and his family, but you see a ton of Curry and his amazing wife Molly, who is really as much about the campaign as Brown. Great job by Curry to get out and make women votes count too!

My take on the part 2 is Alvin is less inclined to use his family for political marketing.

Brown's great political failure is the failure to systematically communicate.

[TheCat]

Main twitter:

#jaxpol

Secondary twitter:

#jaxelections


Metrojacksonville twitter handle:

@metroj

[coredumped]

Interestingly enough, Twitter being used as a huge social media platform....yet Mayor Brown has had an account since 2010 and only has 1,179 tweets on one site and 4,000 on another and Curry with over 9000 tweets, but he has been tweeting since 2009.

https://twitter.com/AlvinForMayor?lang=en
https://twitter.com/MayorAlvinBrown?lang=en
vs
https://twitter.com/lennycurry?lang=en&lang=en

LOL, the parody Alvin Brown account almost has more tweets:
https://twitter.com/jaxmayorbrown

[jaxlore]

It looks like Lenny Curry didn't really start tweeting until December 2013. He averages about 6.3 tweets a day vs Mayor Brown at 3.8.  Check out the pretty graphs for more detailed analysis.
http://www.tweetstats.com/graphs/mayoralvinbrown
http://www.tweetstats.com/status/alvinformayor
http://www.tweetstats.com/graphs/lennycurry

[Tacachale]

Interestingly enough, Twitter being used as a huge social media platform....yet Mayor Brown has had an account since 2010 and only has 1,179 tweets on one site and 4,000 on another and Curry with over 9000 tweets, but he has been tweeting since 2009.

https://twitter.com/AlvinForMayor?lang=en
https://twitter.com/MayorAlvinBrown?lang=en
vs
https://twitter.com/lennycurry?lang=en&lang=en


Interestingly enough Part 2.....you rarely see any ads or pictures of Alvin Brown and his family, but you see a ton of Curry and his amazing wife Molly, who is really as much about the campaign as Brown. Great job by Curry to get out and make women votes count too!

My take on the part 2 is Alvin is less inclined to use his family for political marketing.

I'm going to jump in and defend Brown on the family thing as well. My dad did the same thing with us, we rarely attended events and very rarely did ads. Some people just want a separate family life. It doesn't reflect poorly on Brown at all; if anything it says a lot about his commitment as a family man.

[edjax]

Bottom line, come this evening about 50% of those who voted will be happy and 50% will be unhappy. And I could care less how those that didn't vote feel.  Regardless who wins I think the city will survive and be fine.  One reason I believe this and it is a big hope, and that is we will hopefully have a stronger CC with the likes of Brosche, Hazouri and King. Honestly to me, the bigger indictment on our city in this election is if we actually would vote a nut job like Daniels back into office over Brosche. 

[tufsu1]

^ Don't forget Ferraro over King....or Youngblood over Hazzouri....at least one of those is thankfully not likely to happen....but if either did, it would be about as bad as Daniels beating Brosche

[ben america]

Turnout as of 11:30 AM

[edjax]

^ Don't forget Ferraro over King....or Youngblood over Hazzouri....at least one of those is thankfully not likely to happen....but if either did, it would be about as bad as Daniels beating Brosche

I can agree on Hazouri race is up there but still not at same level as Daniels race IMO.  Not so much on King race as that is not a citywide race and in individual districts based on the party regisrtation one party may have a much bigger disadvantage due to alignment.

[jaxlore]

"We have almost tripled what was (spent) in the previous mayoral race," Election Supervisor Jerry Holland said last week."The dollars are just amazing."

You know I've have seen this quote by Jerry Holland making the rounds about whats been spent on the election and its not amazing. It is sad. Some 8+ million dollars wasted on bad flyers and tv ads.

[Tacachale]

The Democratic GOTV efforts will trickle down to the council elections. Unfortunately that may mean another 4 years of Kim Daniels.

[ben america]

Turnout Tracking