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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It'll be really funny if all the right wing nutsos here concerned about a "DSA" candidate get trounced. You don't understand the broad appeal of someone who actually cares and isn't corrupt.[/quote]

Janeese Lewis George actually gives a shit about DC residents. It's been so long since we've had a mayor who did. [b]There is a reason why she's extremely popular in Ward 4 [/b]and it's not because she caters to conservatives and right wing freaks.

The suburbanites and the cowards who are too afraid to leave their homes without Dump's secret police force and the Guard standing around at Metro stations won't know what to do with themselves except whine on DCUM and call MPD over someone parking in front of their house.[/quote]

Ward 4 resident and this is news to me. Most of my neighbors can’t stand her. [/quote]

Well…she won the democratic nomination and her Ward 4 election quite easily.  She beat Lisa Gore by 38 points in the primary.

So, it’s hard to claim she isn’t popular in Ward 4…unless you are trying to argue that her voters have soured on her in just the last year.[/quote]

Barely anyone votes in primaries. She only got 10,000 votes. There's 90,000 people in Ward 4. I don't know anyone who doesn't think she's nuts. [/quote]

Ok...but if you don't vote, who gives a shit if you think she is nuts.  Do you think that screaming into the wind (or in this case on DCUM) will result in different candidates elected?[/quote]

I think the point was that you can't claim JLG is popular in her home ward when, in fact, hardly any of her constituents have ever voted for her. [/quote]

By that measure you also can't claim that she's unpopular just that you and your little bubble don't like her.[/quote]

85 percent of adults in Ward 4 have never voted for JLG. [/quote]

This is nonsense statistics.  I bet 85% of adults in Ward 4 have never voted in a Ward 4 election at all, no matter the candidate.

If she was truly unpopular, then tons of people would have come out and voted for Lisa Gore (a centrist candidate...who perhaps lost because she is centrist).[/quote]

No one has any idea who Lisa Gore is. But everyone knows who JLG is and 85 percent of her constituents said "no thanks."

Winning a primary that almost no one voted in, against a candidate few have ever even heard of, does not mean you're popular. It just means you won a primary that almost no one voted in, against a candidate few have ever even heard of. [/quote]

Nice try. Not voting for someone = "no thanks"??  Some people just don't care to vote. Care to make up anything else?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

"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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.  [b]JLG has a very dedicated and very loyal small minority which is more than enough to get her reelected in a race like this[/b].  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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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