There’s four more hours of voting to go in the D.C. primary, and turnout has been low so far. You’ve still got time to make your voice heard!
May 03, 2011
So This Is What “One City” Looks Like?
Though he campaigned on the theme of “One City,” Mayor Vince Gray’s election showed a city starkly divided along racial and geographic lines. And though Gray’s branded everything that doesn’t move with the “One City” slogan since taking office, the results of the April 26 At-Large Special Election seem to show that we’re no closer to Gray’s dream of citywide unity than we were a year ago.
After some initial confusion about precisely how many Washingtonians casted a ballot yesterday, the District’s Board of Elections and Ethics has revised its numbers downward, knocking turnout back into the single digits.
Sep 10, 2010
It’s The Turnout, Stupid
The great decider in this year’s mayoral election, as we’ve all known for several months, will be turnout. The most recent Clarus poll, released on Wednesday and showing challenger Vince Gray with a seven point lead among likely Democratic voters, pegged African-American turnout in this year’s election at 55 percent. Clarus took the liberty of projecting two turnout scenarios: one where African-American turnout bumped up to 60 percent, the other in which it dropped to 50 percent. In the former scenario, Gray’s lead increased to a whopping eleven points; in the latter, his lead shrunk to two points, well within the margin of error and basically making the race a complete toss-up.