To the average American, and they are a distinctly small minority in the basin, this was a contest between a consummate liberal and a immigrant/labor ideologue.
This election was a poster child for the rot that is at the core of the new face of California. One camp wanting to return the wealth of the city to it's poor and the other wanting to return the area to the control of a cultural icon that is larger in the mind of its practioners than history supports.
And the winner? Not really important considering he has no mandate. The new mayor was elected by 16% of the registered voters in the city.
Well, chew on this:
Can you tell me where Antonio's views on immigration differ from George W. Bush's?