Posted on 12/12/2015 8:45:03 PM PST by TigerClaws
Raise TAXES!!! The only thing he knows.
Happy I’m not in Houston and very happy I will be leaving this area in the next year!!
“Heartbreakingly close. Ugh. IIIRC the 2001 race was similarly close with Orlando Sanchez as the GOP candidate. Ugh, again.”
Nope. White beat Sanchez like a drum in the runoff - 63% to 37%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_mayoral_election,_2003
In contrast, this 2% margin was much closer, with an electorate that is presumably blacker (thanks to Katrina) and more Hispanic than in 2003. Annise Parker’s GOP opponent not only did not make it to the runoff 6 years ago, he placed 4th after Parker and 2 other Dems. If this is a foreshadowing of nationwide races in 2016, the Dems are in big trouble.
I said 2001, I know the rematch was bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_mayoral_election,_2001
Yeah, about 4K votes, same margin as this one, UGH!
Actually, it was a squeaker. Turner won by 2%. I took a peek at 4 election results for Houston, and this was the smallest margin by a factor of 3.
“I said 2001, I know the rematch was bad.”
Oops. My mistake...
Sylvester Turner is a lot like Bronko Bama in that there is absolutely no record of either managing to successfully earn a living in the private sector. Except Sylvester has been feeding at the public trough since about 1908, it seems.
200,000 votes, less than 5% turnout, that’s why these people keep getting elected. I am so glad I got out of there.
Well unless the city of Houston has direct power over the suburbs that wouldn’t really be fair. All major cities exert strong influence over neighboring communities.
Chicago, eh, if Cook County as a whole got to vote MAYBE a RINO would win once in a Blue moon. Tony Perica came fairly close to beating the execrable Stroger Jr. for County Board Prez, 6 or 7 points, in a bad year, 2006. Perica actually did well enough in the city to win, carrying 12 wards, he did not get what he needed from suburban Cook, much of which is just as bad as the city.
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I was surprised that rematch in ‘03 was so non-competitive.
Good news is it’s only a 2 year term. Bad news is I have no confidence they’ll turn out an incumbent, given the garbage that they’ve reelected by wide margins in the past.
That’s such a paltry turnout that in a comparable city in population, Chicago, you’d have to go back to the April 1893 Mayoral election to see 200k total vote for both sides (and at the time, they only had about 1.2 million, half of Houston’s current population).
Houston, we have a problem!
Apparently, Houston just validated its place as the anus of Texas.
I live in the area. This should’ve been a slam dunk for King. The lesbo mayor ran the city into a deficit and folks here were tired of her pushing her tranny bathroom bill, over and over.
King had the most pitiful ads running. I thought “is he trying to lose the race?”. He has a very feminine sounding voice, didn’t play well on air, and he did his own commercials. (think Bobby Jindal)
It’s a target rich environment. He needed a professional voice to speak for him, on his ads, and make all of the easy points, for the win. He had Mattress Mack make an ad for him, the last two weeks, but even that ad was incredibly weak/unprofessional sounding.
Thanks for the on-the-ground account. That’s too bad.
Seems like it could have beenmwon, appears close.
The 1-2% can easily be accounted for in democrat vote cheating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Houston
On November 3, 2015, voters approved Proposition 2, which extended the terms of the Mayor, City Controller and City Councilmembers to two four-year terms.
Watched the news for a bit until SJL came on - most obnoxious woman ever. Looks like they may have found enough votes along the Highway 90 corridor in Ft. Bend County to put Sylvester over the top. Either that or the “mail in” ballots that allowed Sylvester to gain an early lead.
If King ran a lousy campaign and still came within 2 points in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, could this mean the Dems are in trouble nationwide, and more generally in 2016?
Oh, well, bit of wait then. Sigh.
4 bloody thousand!
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