People don't vote when they don't like their choices. That's Politics 101. You seem to have a lot of trouble accepting the obvious fact that Janeese Lewis George is not very popular in her home ward. |
If most people truly didn't like JLG they would have engaged in the process to learn more about Lisa Gore and other candidates, right? |
"very obvious fact" 😂 You guys were posting your hearts out here to the same tune the last times Janeese was elected. I see you haven't upped your game at all. Cry harder. |
Once again (since you seem a little scattered), all I'm saying that is that you're wrong to suggest JLG is popular in her ward, and the obvious evidence of that is that only 10,000 of her constituents, out of a possible 70,000, actually voted for her. By definition, you are not popular if you win with 14 percent of the support of your constituents. |
I have no dog in this fight but this is a dumb argument. |
It's the same argument people make against Republicans in the House, who get elected in lightly attended primaries. |
I was one of them. It’s a no for me for her. |
Ah, yes. It does seem like we're arguing with aggrieved Republicans who have a bone to pick with CM Lewis George. |
To be fair, most people across the entire city probably don't vote in Council races, period. You can only really make an assessment based on who does vote. JLG has a very dedicated and very loyal small minority which is more than enough to get her reelected in a race like this. I think it will probably be enough to get her elected in a mayoral primary as well, but we'll see who else jumps in. This PP who calls everyone who doesn't like JLG a cop or Fox watcher or Trump fan is a caricature of her supporters, but not too far off the reality - IME they use fealty to this one politician as a moral litmus test even though she's not particularly impressive in accomplishments or in personal charisma. (Fun fact: I have a friend who used to argue with me that JLG was capital-A Amazing and I was just a hater until she had to reach out to her office for help on a local issue and got stonewalled and dismissed. It was like she'd been betrayed by a long-time friend, she was so shocked that this person was not interested in addressing constituent issues, even when the constituent was a Big Time Fan And Booster. Never meet your heroes!) - Ward 4 resident, voted for JLG against Todd but then voted for Gore the next time around. At least when she runs for Mayor we get a chance to put in someone new |
No, I think you're missing the point. JLG is very similar to House Republicans in the sense that she's an extremist who gets elected in primaries in which very few people participate. Your (or her or House Republicans') claim to represent a district, let alone be popular in that district, is pretty tenuous if only a tiny fraction of the people who live there actually voted for you (or her or them). |
The woke squad, as Bowser has dubbed them, has a small but dedicated following. |
Go back and look at the Ward 4 Democrat council primaries for as long as you can. The most that ever voted in the 2000s was around 16,000 in 2016. Around 15,000 voted in 2024 which is the 2nd highest total. There are 57,000 registered votes in Ward 4 and 46,000 registered Democrat. It doesn't matter who the candidates are that are running...15,000 voters is about all that the primary will ever get. |
Again...you never have more than 15,000 registered Democratic voters turn out in the Ward 4 council Democrat primary (which is 33% of all registered Democrats in Ward 4). It's hard to claim she has a small minority that is enough to get her elected, when she received 10,000 out of the 15,000 total votes. The most voters that have ever turned out for the Ward 4 Democratic Primary council race in recent memory was 16,000 in 2016. 2024 was the 2nd largest turnout. |
Yet she had no problem siding with the Ward 4 west of the Park NIMBYs in opposing the Connnecticut Avenue bike lanes...she is a 'go with the wind' politician as far as I can tell. |
Not everyone who votes for her is a superfan or even a "supporter" in the way this thread is trying to imply. Gore was singularly inept as a candidate. And in every election, many vote on name recognition, which she had in her reelection bid. She has a dedicated and loyal small minority who love her. The rest are just voters faced with a choice. |