Congratulations, Sujata (and Bob, Chris, lee, and Speedy). Your suburb-urban turnout calculus was right on target! Great campaign. Exceptional mailing pieces with good, targeted messaging…. (But, if the Bridgeport vote would have gone one way, it would have eclipsed the suburban vote — that will happen in November….)
(Lenny: What happened to the Park City Magnet vote count — the machine was broken when I went there and they were feeding the completed ballots into and open the side of the machine when I went there at about 6:00 PM to vote with 3 votes for Sujata from my household…)
Well-run race, Bill. You don’t have any “ring-rust” — you put up a great fight. You were up against a really sharp group of hard-working political operatives (with a couple of “spoiler” competitors?).
Tyler and Scott — you both got out of the gate way late, and there didn’t appear to be much fire or message behind your efforts…. Why is that?!
But. A very expensive (per-vote) primary. How much $ did each of the campaigns have to spend? It seems that they all should have had (average) about 150k each…. So that’s about 600k spread over about 3858 (3900) votes — about $154 per vote…. Hmmmmmmmmmm. How can a democracy really work when it costs so much to dislodge a single vote from a poor, urban electorate? It seems that election reform needs to go a lot farther than current proposals.
What is the Republican vote count in Trumbull and Monroe. I would guess pretty high — number and percent. This could be a pretty competitive race for Sujata. She’ll still a pile of Bridgeport votes to win this if the Republican candidate wakes up and gets out a rational message disconnected from the national Republican chaos/lunacy/degeneracy.
We’ll see. This will not be a typical nationwide Election Day/Day After this year….
Finch, Mack, and Burns were most definitely a means to split the Port vote. The question was, for whom?
A, Mack being a logical choice to generate the black vote. Being a carpet bagger who moved into the BR to run would mean Burns and Finch were to thwart him. My guess is it was a similar tactic, a strategy that was why Moore was able to take out Trumbull’s boy, Musto to take out Finch, before G2. Her failed attempt to take out G2 2019 led to her being thrown under the bus by BR Gen Now in 2023 and her ultimate departure.
B, Mark entering, perhaps was to thwart Finch, with the black vote. As well, Burns with the white BR vote
Burns’s run seemed “illogical” over Trumbull’s girl Sujata would have beaten him. 🤣
Perhaps it was all for Sujata to reset from the Moore strategy.
Though I am sure each corner was hoping for a victory.
Regardless, Mack comes out on the losing end, regardless. My guess will have to see if he will be able to recuperate a CC in BR from a failed strategy.
Between 10-11,000 unaffiliated. I am not sure what Monroe’s numbers are, but this district has not been very close even when strong Republicans ran. Nothing taken for granted, but this is an extremely tough district for Republicans.
Lenny: Do you have Park City Magnet numbers? Their ballot machine was not working and they were putting the filled-out ballots into the open side of the machine by hand…
Finch for U.S. Senate!
Congratulations, Sujata (and Bob, Chris, lee, and Speedy). Your suburb-urban turnout calculus was right on target! Great campaign. Exceptional mailing pieces with good, targeted messaging…. (But, if the Bridgeport vote would have gone one way, it would have eclipsed the suburban vote — that will happen in November….)
(Lenny: What happened to the Park City Magnet vote count — the machine was broken when I went there and they were feeding the completed ballots into and open the side of the machine when I went there at about 6:00 PM to vote with 3 votes for Sujata from my household…)
Well-run race, Bill. You don’t have any “ring-rust” — you put up a great fight. You were up against a really sharp group of hard-working political operatives (with a couple of “spoiler” competitors?).
Tyler and Scott — you both got out of the gate way late, and there didn’t appear to be much fire or message behind your efforts…. Why is that?!
But. A very expensive (per-vote) primary. How much $ did each of the campaigns have to spend? It seems that they all should have had (average) about 150k each…. So that’s about 600k spread over about 3858 (3900) votes — about $154 per vote…. Hmmmmmmmmmm. How can a democracy really work when it costs so much to dislodge a single vote from a poor, urban electorate? It seems that election reform needs to go a lot farther than current proposals.
What is the Republican vote count in Trumbull and Monroe. I would guess pretty high — number and percent. This could be a pretty competitive race for Sujata. She’ll still a pile of Bridgeport votes to win this if the Republican candidate wakes up and gets out a rational message disconnected from the national Republican chaos/lunacy/degeneracy.
We’ll see. This will not be a typical nationwide Election Day/Day After this year….
Registered Democrats now outnumber registered Republicans in Trumbull. It is about 7,200 D, 5,900 R. That’s an approximation, but it’s close.
Finch, Mack, and Burns were most definitely a means to split the Port vote. The question was, for whom?
A, Mack being a logical choice to generate the black vote. Being a carpet bagger who moved into the BR to run would mean Burns and Finch were to thwart him. My guess is it was a similar tactic, a strategy that was why Moore was able to take out Trumbull’s boy, Musto to take out Finch, before G2. Her failed attempt to take out G2 2019 led to her being thrown under the bus by BR Gen Now in 2023 and her ultimate departure.
B, Mark entering, perhaps was to thwart Finch, with the black vote. As well, Burns with the white BR vote
Burns’s run seemed “illogical” over Trumbull’s girl Sujata would have beaten him. 🤣
Perhaps it was all for Sujata to reset from the Moore strategy.
Though I am sure each corner was hoping for a victory.
Regardless, Mack comes out on the losing end, regardless. My guess will have to see if he will be able to recuperate a CC in BR from a failed strategy.
Just some thoughts, people
Independents? Monroe numbers — R’s, D’s, I’s?
Between 10-11,000 unaffiliated. I am not sure what Monroe’s numbers are, but this district has not been very close even when strong Republicans ran. Nothing taken for granted, but this is an extremely tough district for Republicans.
Lenny: Do you have Park City Magnet numbers? Their ballot machine was not working and they were putting the filled-out ballots into the open side of the machine by hand…