Author: BigDust

This isnt of much consequence from a strictly strategic political perspective, but is a story I felt compelled to share with the SSP community.

An African-American, James Young, was elected Mayor (on Tuesday, I imagine) of Philadelphia, MS.  

Whats remarkable about this election was not only did he beat out a 3-term white incumbent Mayor or that he did it in a city that has a 55% white population in the Deep South, but that he did it in Philadelphia – the city where 3 civil rights workers were killed, a brutal, horrific incident that inspired the movie “Mississippi Burning” (An absolute must watch for those who have not seen it).

Even after electing an African-American POTUS just 7.5 months ago, I still cannot help being moved and impressed by this story.  I hope everyone will take a few minutes to click on the link, read the story and watch the video of CNN speaking to James Young.  Truly inspiring (my apologies for all the editorializing).  

ADDITION (not in original posting): Oh yeah and he won by 46 votes in a city of 8,000 people (dont know how many votes were cast unfortunately).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/…

Wow.

http://www.capitolweekly.net/a…

I am not usually the diary posting type but this seemed like big news if it pans out.  Cant say Im totally surprised but Garamendi was my guy and I fully planned on voting for him in the primary knowing he would probably only garner about 10% of the vote.

Personally and politically, I really like him and kind of wished I still lived in CA-10 so I could cast a vote for him.  I met him once.  He is a large, congenial and enagaging man.

It looks almost certain now that AG Brown will take the plunge for Team Blue and easily win the Dem primary.  Either he or Feinstein but I never really thought she would enter.  Some of my more well-connected friends in the CDP seem to agree with that assessment as well.

Also, I dont see much hope for Buchanan or DeSaulnier given this event but in a low-turnout election, who knows?

I know Nate Silver already handled the math this morning as it pertains to the NY-20 race but here is an update from the NY BOE:

http://www.elections.state.ny….

For those of you who like it quick and dirty at Tedisco, the latest tally after Saratoga and Washington has Murphy by 86 votes.

All that is left it looks like is some counting left to do of absentees in Dutchess, Warren and Columbia (all Murphy counties on election night and in the absentees thus far) plus a small amount of military and overseas ballots in Columbia, Dutchess, Essex and Rensselear (all Murphy counties again on election day except Rensselear where Murphy has won in the absentee count so far anyway).

With an overwhelming majority of challenged ballots being from the Tedisco campaign and NOT included in these numbers, the math is looking awfully difficult now for Tedisco.  It looks like Murphy will finish the paper ballot count ~100 votes ahead.  Barring a judicial catastrophe I dont see how Murphy loses this one.  

Sorry for the short diary but I need to make a delivery for work but thought that this news needed to be shared with the SSP community.

This is astounding and the numbers are worse than anything GWB dived into, though not by much (19/78 approval/disapproval).  Not that their performance is in any way equitable, its not, but just in pure numbers this is awful.  Cuomo beats Paterson 55-22% among AA voters(!) and 67-17% overall in a potential primary matchup.  

Paterson needs to step aside for Cuomo.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_…