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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since nobody else has pointed it out yet on this thread, I'm going to point it out:

all those posts I kept reading on this forum, for months, about how Alexandrians don't want more housing, Alexandrians don't want transit and sidewalks and bike lanes, Alexandria don't want more of Justin Wilson's progressive nonsense, and then it turns that actually a majority of Alexandria voters actually do want all those things. [/quote]

Lol. It’s already been pointed out that turnout was super low at 16 percent. This is terrible turnout, and certainly not a “majority” anything.

This is the problem when you have low turnout in a democracy. You don’t have a mandate for anything, one way or the other.
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I share your concern about low turnout, but do you think Jackson (or a similar YIMBY-skeptic candidate) is likely to have won a high turnout election?[/quote]

No, but that’s the problem. Without better turnout we can’t say what, exactly, Alexandrians want. Other than apathy for local issues, I guess.[/quote]

Jackson narrowly won the city hall precinct in Old Town, and only that precinct. Gaskins romped in the West End.  Non voters are likely to resemble the West End voters more than the Old Town voters (younger/browner etc.). Yes, let's increase turnout and drive the totals for Wilson/Gaskins type candidates even higher.[/quote]

Again, bunch of results with super low turnout so we don’t know what they would look like if more people engaged and voted. You can’t extrapolate from 16 percent made up of high information, care-about-local-politics voters.[/quote]

You're probably right, unpredictable things would happen in a higher turnout environment, but we can decisively say that Jackson/Silberberg type politics have a ceiling and would not do well in that environment.[/quote]

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