Perhaps I have a bit of an ingrained East Coast bias. After all, I wrote several pieces about last year’s fight to determine New York City’s next Mayor, yet I haven’t touched on this year’s contest to lead Los Angeles. Well, that ends right now. Incumbent Mayor Eric Garcetti is term-limited, giving us an open race to become L.A.’s 43rd Mayor. The polling shows that two … [Read more...] about LA Mayoral Race Preview
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Previewing The Boston Mayoral Runoff Election
Decision Desk HQ last examined the Boston Mayoral Election before the September 14th nonpartisan ‘primary’ election. We concluded that previous article stating that City Councilor Michelle Wu possessed a coalition that guaranteed her one of the two positions in the runoff, but speculated she could struggle to win the November runoff. The former occurred, but the latter has not … [Read more...] about Previewing The Boston Mayoral Runoff Election
Previewing Tomorrow’s Boston Mayoral Primary
Boston votes on September 14th in the first of two elections to choose the city's next mayor. Voters elect the mayor through a nonpartisan “top-two primary” system. In this system all candidates appear on the September primary ballot, and then the top two candidates advance to a runoff in November. Former mayor Marty Walsh resigned from his position to join President Biden’s … [Read more...] about Previewing Tomorrow’s Boston Mayoral Primary
Municipal Election Results on April 6, 2021
This post contains the results from all of the municipal elections we are covering tonight. First up, we go to St. Louis where the Mayor's office is open after Mayor Lyda Krewson decided to retire instead of running for a third term. This is the first St. Louis municipal election cycle ever where all of the races are officially nonpartisan, however both candidates in … [Read more...] about Municipal Election Results on April 6, 2021