An underwhelming mandate
One has to assume that Mayor Mick Cornett will win reelection today — Clark Matthews figured a 99.999-percent probability — but people aren’t exactly storming their way to the polls, if my own neighborhood is any indication: at 5:05 pm I shoved ballot number 164 into the box, indicating that there had been a lot of slack time for the two babes working the precinct. (They did fetch up a box of magazines, I noticed.)
And actually, I was wavering a bit until the Gazette put out its head-to-head on the two candidates last week. (You’ll note that no endorsement was offered here.) Maybe some day I’ll tell you why.
Addendum: It actually came out fairly close: Cornett 58 percent, Hunt 42.
scooby214 »
2 March 2010 · 9:59 pm
I was #162 at 6:00 P.M. at my precinct. The overwhelming comment I heard today was, “There is an election today?”
Brian
CGHill »
2 March 2010 · 10:05 pm
Also in Norman and Midwest City, and no doubt some others around the state.
Kirk »
3 March 2010 · 7:46 am
A 16% spread is fairly close? What would it take for you to call it a blowout?
CGHill »
3 March 2010 · 8:11 am
Given the opposition, such as it was, I expected something like the 87-13 margin Cornett got for his second term.
Then again, Hizzoner spent something like $12 on his reelection campaign, so there’s evidently a lot to be said for just making noise.