Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Irony of the Day -- the DC Election

From today's Wash Post on the DC election:

At the Oyster Elementary School precinct on Calvert Street NW, lawyer Anne Stolee said she voted for Marie Johns because she "hated Linda Cropp's negative campaign" and felt Fenty's "heart was in the right place but he didn't have the attention to detail."

Umm...the Cropp negative campaign was about Fenty's lack of attention to detail. Negative campaigning works, although in this case Cropp, although successful in preventing this voter from voting for Fenty, didn't have the positives to capture her vote.

If Fenty wins, which seems likely, it's going to be because he seemed so energetic and Cropp seemed, well, embalmed. When I met her the first thought I had was how tired she looked. Image is everything.

The other irony here is that, this voter, by voting for Johns, is helping elect Fenty. Johns hasn't a prayer of winning -- and Cropp's only chance of success is picking up a large chunk of undecideds and Johns' voters. Johns' voters need to realize their gal can't win and that Cropp is (to their way of thinking) the next best thing.

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