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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks Jeff for your detailed explanation. I'm wondering (and this is also a question to others): Where does Charles Allen get his votes from? Who supports him, by race, SES, other interest groups (e.g., supporters of DCPS vs. charters, etc.)? To ask that question another way, what motivates him politically?[/quote]

I haven't followed Allen's elections very closely and the last one was 2018 so I had to look up the results. My analysis above is wrong because Allen didn't have multiple opponents as I had assumed. Rather, he had single opponent and beat her 68% - 23%. Unless he has massively lost support for some reason, he will be nearly impossible to defeat.

I know that he was endorsed by many progressive groups and is popular with the good government types. He has even been endorsed by the police union previously, though I understand they are pissed off at him now. I think the question is less who supports Allen than who opposes him since he appears to have very broad support. My guess is that other than the police, the largest group of opponents is probably long-term residents who are opposed to change. Ward 6 has undergone a lot of transformation that has probably upset a lot of people. But, I am not even confident that he doesn't have support among this group.
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