Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 14:51     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


there was no point in voting here yesterday, none at all.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 14:02     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


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?


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.


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.


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 13:54     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


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?


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.


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 13:46     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


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?


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 13:39     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


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?


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 13:10     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


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?
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 13:09     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 12:44     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 12:26     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote: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.


Yup.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 12:07     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 05:59     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Look at the results, I do appreciate that it demographically represents the city well. There aren't a lot of cities that can do that, so broadly.

No, it isn't the only issue or how one should decide their vote. But it is still nice to see a black woman, a black man, a redhead woman, a latina woman, a gay white man, a hispanic man, and an arab man on the council.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 05:52     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
I'm ok with these results. And thrilled, THRILLED that o'connell didn't make it. Such a douche.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2024 23:09     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Pretty sure there were more votes cast for student government at my undergrad university than in this election. “City” of Alexandria.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2024 22:53     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Huskey the king of the NIMBYs finished dead last with less than half the votes of the first place finisher. How sweet it is!


O’Connell, king of the YiMBYs and Wilson simp, also trounced. How sweet it is!


This election was 100% name recognition. It was all incumbents of some sort.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2024 22:51     Subject: Alexandria Mayor Race
Anonymous wrote:Charlotte Scherer, who has a DUI and has been banned from a local tattoo shop for bothering the staff, looks like she may pick up a city council seat.


Thankfully not.