Norwalk politicians’ citywide ‘horse race’ tally

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3 responses to “Norwalk politicians’ citywide ‘horse race’ tally”

1. WOW!

   November 10, 2013

   Wow! It’s quite apparent that the Republican Town Committee did an excellent job of running a united campaign. The fact that the number of votes received by the top of the ticket was fairly consistent across the board with the vote tally of the Party’s at-large candidates indicates to me that the only weakness with the Republicans was at the top of their ticket.
   On the other hand, Harry Rilling outpaced the Democrats’ at-large candidates by an average of more than 2,000 votes! This is an indication of poor leadership in the Democratic Town Committee. The Democratic team did not run a unified campaign. The Democrat-leaning voters reflected the divisiveness within their Party’s campaign in the number of “blank” votes that were cast. Amanda Brown needs to step down. She obviously is a polarizing figure and provided a disservice to the underticket.

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2. EveT

   November 10, 2013

   Given the 4-way Democratic primary and its potential for deep rifts in the party, I think the Democratic slate ended up doing very well. Polls consistently find that voters who identify as Democrats are less likely to wholly accept a party platform. Instead they tend to parse issues and evaluate candidates individually.

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3. Bruce Kimmel

   November 10, 2013

   Eve, all my political life I’ve tried to “parse issues” and “evaluate” candidates, etc., as these typical Democrats generally do. But I kept finding myself a target of local Democrats. After fifteen years, kind of wore me down. It’s not easy to be a typical Democrat, and then get elected to something, in this city.

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