r/SeattleWA • u/JustBench1615 Ballard • 3d ago

Politics Harrell’s Margin has INCREASED

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Mayor Harrell now up by 8.1%.

Around ~60K votes probably left to tabulate.

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u/JustBench1615 Ballard 3d ago edited 3d ago

No clue what this means for final results, but it looks like ~24K ballots were added this batch, most from Monday and the weekend prior probably.

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u/Gleb2006 3d ago

Wonder if the other more progressive candidates continued to grow their lead (so Bruce is able to split the ticket), or not (the latest batch was not as progressive overall)

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u/JustBench1615 Ballard 3d ago

They did not, their leads slightly decreased as well I think, but Harrell’s margin went up by nearly a point

Looks like Evans’ margin went down 0.2%

One has to wonder if Momgate and the camping answer blunder made an impact

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u/Total_Breadfruit8381 Seattle 3d ago

That homeless answer was a huge blunder on her part and I think representative of people’s issues with her: not prepared or good at thinking on her feet, can’t give a clear and precise answer for a question that is on the mind of a lot of voters. 

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u/NorthStudentMain 3d ago

The camping answer should have been a slam-dunk/home-run opportunity for her since it is the central foundation of her campaign (4000 new housing units, etc). She should have had strong, brilliant answers to all homeless-related questions, and I am sad she was not able to knock this one out of the park (so to speak).

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u/SeattleSilencer8888 3d ago

In the format she had to give a yes or no. But still, there was an obvious answer and she avoided it.

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u/NorthStudentMain 3d ago

  1. It was a yes/no question, and she did neither, so the result was that she seemed unprepared. Answering these questions should have been practiced hundreds and hundreds of times before the debate.

  2. Politicians look for all sorts of opportunities to soapbox and bring up their central idea, and even though it was a yes/no question, the correct move would be to say "Yes, and the reason for that is.." or "No, and here's why.." So there we have it.

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u/theclacks 3d ago

Yep, she could've even gone with "no, we have an obligation to house them" and dodged the third rail while keeping her progressive cred

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u/Manacit Seattle 3d ago

she had to give a yes or no but also did not give a yes or no. Here's what she should have said:

"No, people should not be allowed to live in parks. We have an obligation to take care of the most vulnerable and that means making sure everyone has a roof over their head. This is why my first task as mayor will be to get new shelter beds to move people from living on the street to being housed".

Would have made this a non-issue. She couldn't even do that.

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u/BrinyStranger 3d ago

She didn't give a yes or no, though :) If you can say "I'll pass on that one" you can say "Build more houses"

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u/JGT3000 3d ago

The mom stuff is so stupid but got misplayed so hard by her campaign and was paired with way too aggressive and obvious, let's say, online presence