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In the first four months of the general-election campaign, Bowser has avoided debates, offered few hard positions on the issues and filled her speeches with broad generalizations.
I've yet to hear a single, specific policy position out of Muriel Bowser. And I resent any "strategy" that relies solely on the idea that being a Democrat is enough to win the election.
This is an important election, especially for the black residents of DC and other who have been gentrified right out of their neighborhoods. What in the world does Muriel Bowser bring to the job that those who don't make $100k per year can actually relate to?
It's not that Bowser is the ideal candidate for mayor, it's that she is way better than 2nd & 3rd choice. David Catania would be a disaster as mayor. He is an insufferable bully to people who aren't on "David's Team." If you think Adrian Fenty had trouble getting along with others, you haven't seen anything yet.
It's not that Bowser is the ideal candidate for mayor, it's that she is way better than 2nd & 3rd choice. David Catania would be a disaster as mayor. He is an insufferable bully to people who aren't on "David's Team." If you think Adrian Fenty had trouble getting along with others, you haven't seen anything yet.
I think you're glossing over the real issue you have with David Catania.....and that is you hate the fact that he's a former Republican. It does not escape me that you would use liberal buzz words such as "bully" to make your case. A liberal calling a former Republican a "bully" tells the entire story.
Even worse is that you feel that being a "bully" is plenty enough to vote for someone who quite literally brings nothing to the race for Mayor or to DC.
I think you're glossing over the real issue you have with David Catania.....and that is you hate the fact that he's a former Republican. It does not escape me that you would use liberal buzz words such as "bully" to make your case. A liberal calling a former Republican a "bully" tells the entire story.
Even worse is that you feel that being a "bully" is plenty enough to vote for someone who quite literally brings nothing to the race for Mayor or to DC.
You've just pointed out another reason David won't win. This is a town that votes Democratic and David despite his new label is still a Republican. I doubt he'll even win the gay vote. Bowser will bury him at the election.
You've just pointed out another reason David won't win. This is a town that votes Democratic and David despite his new label is still a Republican. I doubt he'll even win the gay vote. Bowser will bury him at the election.
Dream on.
Bury him? I assume you mean "win decisively." That, in fact, will not happen. Bowser might edge him out, but she will not win decisively.
The Washington Post gives a pretty good run down of why Bowser is not the run-away favorite:
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This could be a tight contest in which voters elect the city’s first white mayor (Catania or Schwartz), first openly gay mayor (Catania), or first mayor who isn’t a Democrat (Catania and Schwartz are former Republicans). Or it could run according to the script that has governed every mayoral race in the District’s four decades of home rule: Democrat wins, no real contest.
It all depends on who bothers to show up in what all sides expect to be a very low-turnout election — the result of lack of enthusiasm about the candidates, the long-standing pattern of barely contested November mayoral elections, cynicism born of the cavalcade of corruption cases during Gray’s term or a blend of those reasons. Will young newcomers show up? Will black voters, a majority of whom sided with Gray against Bowser in the primary, fall in with the Democratic nominee?
I'm not a Bowser or Catania fan by any stretch of the imagination but the Washington Post is rarely correct about predicting DC elections. Bowser will definitely win with probably about 47% of the vote.
I think Catania is going to win this. I was EoTR the other day and I've seen quite a few people with Catania yard signs and some black folks campaigning for him on Alabama ave. Who knows this race could surprise everyone.
I'm not a Bowser or Catania fan by any stretch of the imagination but the Washington Post is rarely correct about predicting DC elections. Bowser will definitely win with probably about 47% of the vote.
47% to what?
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