Precinct by precinct results in St. Pete

The Pinellas Supervisor of Elections has released the precinct by precinct results of Tuesday St. Petersburg elections. See it for yourself here. There's a lot of numbers to digest. Anything stick out to the Buzz faithful. Here's a map showing the citywide precincts if you'd like a reference.

Comments

Brickfield targeted the right pcts. I know I was told before hand.

St Pete Volunteer

The thing that sticks out is the low turnout. I don't live in St. Pete, but if I'd come down there with my cousins to vote, we could have taken over St. Pete.

Neil qiut blogging yourself..you think we're idiots?

[jus guessin']

Two things:

1) In low-turn out elections, anything can happen.
2) Oh, the dangers of running a slate.

Baker's slate got hurt by each other's weaknesses and/or did not benefit from each other's strengths. The Firefighters, on the other hand, inflicted some damage on would-be winners.

Midtown voted independently perhaps because FF broke through, and Newton loosened the hold Faulkner may have delivered for other Baker candidates. (My one allotted snarky note: slapping literature on car windshields is aggressive littering, not targeted campaigning.)

Dudley carried Kersteen in Dist 3, making Polson's lead narrower than expected. Polson's focus on targeted precincts in the west, northeast, and Lakewood paid off and protected him from the fate of Monty and Faulkner.

Polson's popularity in the west did not carry Montanari in Dist 1. The west rewarded loyal Polson, and punished pro-development, pro-Baker, pro-establishment Monty and Faulkner.

Dudley made inroads in midtown, thanks to the Firefighters and perhaps riding on a Newton effect. Newton competed in the south, and Faulkner's precincts did not give him the margins he needed to win.

I'm sure there are other factors, too, but this is what jumped out as plausible...

All these numbers prove is the beauty of logarithms and truncation is a Computerized Corporate Appointment Syst… err… I mean Computerized Voting System.

Oh… and that Neil has one less bathroom to clean this week.

I think the big loser that nobody has mentioned yet is Deveron Gibbons. As Baker's point man in the black community, he seems to have really dropped the ball.

Deveron Gibbons had a bad night - Kersteen, Faulkner, Montanari.

Yeah, Deveron's "plan" to trot in the mayor, expect people to roll over, vote for a criminal, and vote for New Election? There's a fine line between clever and stupid!

Taking black support for granted- tsk tsk, Rick Baker. You were served.