[Mpls] Apathy wins the 2005 election

[Dan]

Justin wrote:
> Kudos to the pollsters who called it.  With 70% of voters choosing not to
> choose there is a clear victor for mayor and the direction of the City (no
> one and none respectively).  Why did voters decide not to vote?  Good
> question.  Southwest voters seem content with the status quo but going
> through the low voter turnout in other Wards is a sad commentary on the
> current state of the local democracy.  If the people in North are content
> with the current situation then all must be well.

I think the reason voters didn't get out is simply that there was no
candidate to get fired up about. Rybak and McLaughlin are cut from the same
cloth. I voted McLaughlin, simply because I like to kick out bad incumbents,
even if the replacement doesn't look much better. I guess most voters
decided, "better the devil you know." The ones who chose to stay home must
have reached the conclusion that it makes no difference.

Anyhow, have a drink to Rybak, Schiff, Lilligren, Ostrow, Gordon, Hofstede,
Johnson, Samuels, Goodman, Glidden, Remington, Benson, Colvin-Roy and Hodges
(while you still can).

Dan McGrath
Longfellow
http://www.shegstad.us