Posted on 07/31/2023 5:37:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
As the Nashville mayor's race hurtles toward Election Day on Thursday, there's increasing concern among the city's Democratic establishment and some business leaders that Republican Alice Rolli will qualify for the runoff election.
A slate of recent polling shows Rolli either in second place or close to it. It's a razor-thin margin between three candidates for second place, polls say.
Only the top two candidates advance to the runoff, set for Sept. 14.
State of play: Nashville voters are reliably Democratic, but with the liberal vote splintered, Rolli has an opening to consolidate enough conservative support to leapfrog the field.
Rolli is the only viable Republican in a race where the six other top candidates are Democrats. She worked in Gov. Bill Haslam's economic development office under future U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty. She also managed Sen. Lamar Alexander's 2014 re-election campaign.
The city's political establishment prefers pro-business Democrats.
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The Democrat might have to face opposition from a REPUBLICAN!
Why, that's not supposed to happen! We've fixed it so that ONLY Democrats are elected!!
She may make the run off but I doubt that Nashville will elect a Republican anything.
Rank Choice voting (which insures a Demon win) was put in TN just for that purpose.
We haven’t elected a Republican Mayor since Grover Cleveland was in his first term (1880s).
Although, thankfully, we’ve got a GOP Congressman due to expert redrawing of the lines. Well, actually, three. I’ve got Ogles.
Probably not considering the big guns in the party aren’t supporting her. That’s why we lose. The democrats support each other, we don’t.
We don’t have rank choice voting. “Technically” the race for Mayor and Council is “non-partisan”, though that’s a joke, since the GOP is very weak to non-existent in Nashville. The Mayor’s race is obviously top-heavy with Demonrat loons, so the GOP can consolidate behind a single candidate. However, barring some miracle, they’re likely to lose in the top-two runoff.
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