Coming Soon: Alexandria's City Council Shakeup in Depth

thanks for doing this

but think you could maybe use some colors that a little more varied?  

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by: Brian Devine @ Thu May 07, 2009 at 14:11:57 PM CDT

what's with the Alexandria obsession?

Can we look forward to a similar analysis of the returns in the other Virginia localities that voted on Tuesday?  

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by: martinlomasney @ Thu May 07, 2009 at 23:28:13 PM CDT

Two items

1) Vienna had a much less interesting election with all of one (1) polling place.

2) Republicans are crowing that they won seats in Alexandria, so we have to see whether it means anything.

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by: Kenton Ngo @ Sat May 09, 2009 at 14:27:46 PM CDT

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It just all seems a bit too parochial

I don't recall a similar level of attention on this blog to the Cook victory in Braddock which has a population almost as big as Alexandria.

Because of their extremely low turn-out, municipal elections are prone to fluky results and tend not to tell you much.

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by: martinlomasney @ Sun May 10, 2009 at 09:32:56 AM CDT

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True

Blogs are subject to the whims of whatever catches the blogger's attention (and where he is, I didn't write about the Braddock special as I was out of the country at the time).

Observers often wring too much meaning out of special elections, but this was a regular municipal election with a unique voting system that helped contribute to wonky results. Braddock's special election was exactly that--a special election.

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by: Kenton Ngo @ Sun May 10, 2009 at 11:00:48 AM CDT

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