Comments on: Study The Past So I Don’t Have to Repeat It

By: Pine Rider

Pine Rider — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:41:37 +0000

Hindsight is 20/20, Abdul.

By: Shorebreak

Shorebreak — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:59:44 +0000

Robert, I wouldn’t say nothing. He’s done an excellent job maintaining the integrity and smooth operation of illegal gambling and the associated money laundering, RICO activity, police corruption, and genreal neighborhood blight that goes along with it.
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You obviously don’t recognize talent when you see it. It’s not every day that you find someone with the pedigree required to run a major city, yet the character to partner with the DoJ in protecting a racketeering system and criminal enterprise that’s used to generate illicit funds for who-knows-what.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:05:07 +0000

Yes, Ballard won the Mayor’s Election…….and then what? ………A Big….NOTHING!

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:04:15 +0000

Unless there’s a hot contest, aren’t primaries traditionally less participative than the general election? Or, there’s enough prior statistical history to tell us Concerned Clergy/tax increase/Monroe Gray was a bad moon on the rise?

By: Paul K. Ogden

Paul K. Ogden — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:48:29 +0000

It’s really tough reading a lot into primaries. Republicans are typically much better at voting in primaries than Democrats. Plus, a lot of African Americans will not vote in the Democrat primary but vote Democrat in the general election.

In 2000, I faced the State Treasurer Joyce Brinkman’s son in a primary contest in a house district on the northwest side. I won that contest. If you look at our Repubican primary votes compared to the Democrats (Jeb Bardon was running for re-election.), we had something like a 1.5 to 1 lead. It could have been as high as 2-1. On election day, the district got swamped with people coming out to vote for against George Bush.

I think there were signs on the wall that Peterson might be in trouble long before Election night. I’m not sure they date back to the primary though. Certainly Ballard was within the margin of error in the last poll before the election. His election was not that much of a surprise. In fact on a Saturday morning radio show before the election, I predicted a Ballard win along with Republicans taking control of the council.