[cripplecreek]

Shocking win for a white guy in Detroit. Obviously he's not our guy but there are some lessons to be learned about campaigning in black communities here.

[cripplecreek]

Mike Duggan wins in Detroit.



Michigan legislative action thread

[Netz]

“Detroiters are intelligent. Detroiters can spell…”

This is not what the data says. I was a Detoiter and I doubt the odds.

Let's assume they CAN spell, they can sign their name on a bouncing check.

Let's also assume they are sick and tired of the status quo and want real change.

50 years of Democratic Operant Conditioning has left them a drugged and listless population.

This is why, they continued to vote for one corrupt Mayor, year after year until now.

I am not sure that Detroiters can pull themselves up out of the muck, alone. Maybe if the football team Lions win 5 consecutive games, there is a chance...

[Netz]

Seems that Detroiters are very desperate and will cote for the Bozo the Clown, the Good Humor Man, Twin Pines, Milky the Clown, the late Sonny Eliot (funny Channel 4 Weatherman), Poop Deck Paul (Radio/TV kid's show) and Bill Bonds (Channel 7 ABC affiliate anchorman) Detroiters will know all these folks.

In short, even the Dog Catcher can win.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Presumably, he is marginally better than Napoleon.

[sport]

Baloney! he is a Democrat. If he needs a million, billion, or a trillion votes to win. Give him/ her enough time and they will get them. Write ins or regular voted, it doesn't matter which one. The deciding factor is time. That was what sunk Al Gore in 2000 , time ran out on him. He may win the mayoral election for Detroit ,because as Rush Limbaugh said, In 2912 the Democrat Party kicked the Blacks, the elderly, and Labor Unions aside and began concentrating on the "immigrant vote". The problem for the United States was that the Blacks, the Labor Unions, and the elderly have not kicked the Democrat Party aside.

Now two of the three, actually all three but the Blacks do not have the intelligence to realize it, are beginning to see the crop they are about to reap from the seeds they so gleefully sown in 2008 and 2012 and as harvest day grows nearer, the tears they are beginning to shed become more and more bitter.

[Pan_Yan]

In Atlanta a few years ago a white city council woman who was officially “independent” (because you can't be a Republican in Atlanta) made it to a runoff in the mayor race. Of course once the race was narrowed down to two candidates, the other being named Kasim, she had no chance.

[campaignPete R-CT]

“Obviously he’s not our guy “

why is it obvious that he is not our guy? Benny Napoleon is our GUY??!!!

[Darren McCarty]

He also had the McNamara machine behind him, much like a previous mayor named Kwame.

There are some lessons to be learned, but frankly I'd vote Napoleon before Duggan.