And then there were six…

Actually, my prognostications weren’t too bad, with a couple notable exceptions. If I had flipped the positions of Louise Smith and Gary Comegys I would’ve batted pretty close to 1.000. The four I had as the lowest tier all missed the boat and, with the exception of Smith, my predicted middle tier finished three through six. But congratulations to Louise Smith as the top vote getter. I know she worked hard to get that honor and will continue to do so until all the votes are in April 3rd. (Then the hard work begins, right?)

Realistically, the race now becomes whether Tim Spies can hang on to the number three slot and make this a Crisfield-style “clean sweep.” With such a dreadfully low turnout, the more motivated voters (which tend to be blog readers as well) managed to turn out and they pushed the three favored candidates of my partners in crime, if you will. It looks like the seemingly relentless favorable coverage of Comegys in the Daily Times backfired and all of those signs in rental yards only showed that the support of the Ewalt/Atkins/Comegys team was as real as a Potemkin village. Meanwhile, this also pointed out that the televised debates made a huge difference because Smith, Spies, and Cohen seemed to perform the best in those while Gary Comegys stumbled in both. That hurt him in the vote, but with his incumbency and its advantages he can’t be counted out – he needs only to make up 11 votes to stay in his Council seat.

What will be interesting to see is who the four ousted candidates throw their support behind. (I know Neil Bayne reads monoblogue on occasion, perhaps he’ll comment.) And I’ll continue to watch with interest as the campaign doesn’t have much of a break – only 5 weeks until the general election April 3rd, but a lot can happen in that time. (Maybe we’ll get an audit? You never know.)

There’s one other fascinating aspect to this result. When you think of the Eastern Shore in particular and rural areas of America in general, you think of the “good old boy” network. But should Cohen and Smith be elected, Salisbury’s City Council will be 4/5 female (with a female mayor to boot) and the County Council is close behind as there’s 3 of 7 members who are female, plus their Council Administrator. (Not to mention the parts of Wicomico County represented in the House of Delegates by women.)

And to which party do the majority of these women belong? (Hint: it ain’t Hillary’s.) Just grist for the mill and a point to throw out.

I was also going to do a post on my experience this morning on AM Salisbury and how I thought I did, but it’s late and I have an all-day seminar in Snow Hill tomorrow (that continuing education stuff, you know) so I’ll defer that until tomorrow or Thursday. But there is another post I wrote over the weekend in the monoblogue pipeline so you’ll have lots of new stuff to close out February and bring in March like a lion.

Author: Michael

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2 thoughts on “And then there were six…”

  1. Michael:

    What crime did you commit in order to be sentenced to spending an entire day at a seminar in Snow Hill? Were you able to stay awake through the whole thing?

    A day at Gitmo with the “Detainees” would be more fun.

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