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Sylvester Turner wins Houston mayoral runoff election
KHOU ^

Posted on 12/12/2015 8:45:03 PM PST by TigerClaws

OUSTON - Sylvester Turner won the Houston mayoral runoff election Saturday evening.

The polls closed at 7 p.m. Saturday after a day of bad weather worried candidates about voter turnout.

ELECTION RESULTS:http://www.khou.com/elections

Volunteers for both candidates tailored their phone bank messages on election eve, urging voters to cast their ballots in the morning rather than waiting until the afternoon.

Although conventional political wisdom says rainy weather generally works against Democrats, this campaign has been anything but conventional.

(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: houston; mayor; mayoral; sheilajacksonlee; sylvesterturner; texas; turner
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To: 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!!


21 posted on 12/12/2015 9:29:43 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Impy

“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.


22 posted on 12/12/2015 9:29:56 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

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!


23 posted on 12/12/2015 9:33:52 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Theodore R.
Foregone conclusion; I never bothered to check the returns tonight.

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.

24 posted on 12/12/2015 9:35:14 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Impy

“I said 2001, I know the rematch was bad.”

Oops. My mistake...


25 posted on 12/12/2015 9:36:08 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: TigerClaws

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.


26 posted on 12/12/2015 9:36:36 PM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: smokingfrog

200,000 votes, less than 5% turnout, that’s why these people keep getting elected. I am so glad I got out of there.


27 posted on 12/12/2015 9:39:49 PM PST by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican

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.


28 posted on 12/12/2015 9:43:00 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: BBell

om enery the eith ah em...


29 posted on 12/12/2015 9:47:03 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Zhang Fei; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

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.


30 posted on 12/12/2015 9:47:09 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: eastforker; Impy

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).


31 posted on 12/12/2015 9:58:48 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: TigerClaws

Houston, we have a problem!


32 posted on 12/12/2015 10:03:16 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: TigerClaws

Apparently, Houston just validated its place as the anus of Texas.


33 posted on 12/12/2015 10:03:45 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

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.


34 posted on 12/12/2015 10:04:26 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Jane Long

Thanks for the on-the-ground account. That’s too bad.


35 posted on 12/12/2015 10:11:52 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Seems like it could have beenmwon, appears close.

The 1-2% can easily be accounted for in democrat vote cheating.


36 posted on 12/12/2015 10:12:10 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Impy

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.


37 posted on 12/12/2015 10:13:07 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: TigerClaws

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.


38 posted on 12/12/2015 10:15:31 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Jane Long
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.

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?

39 posted on 12/12/2015 10:18:06 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

Oh, well, bit of wait then. Sigh.

4 bloody thousand!


40 posted on 12/12/2015 10:19:49 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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