Republican Davison +17 over police abolitionist Thomas-Kennedy in Seattle City Attorney Race

[NOVA Green]

How could anyone vote for such a vile woman?

She literally tweeted in praise of burning a police building

I’m sorry but this is a bad look for a lot of Seattle voters

Frankly I’m proud and pleasantly surprised at the result. Don’t know why it’s a bad look.

 I think the question is how she became the democratic  Is candidate in the 1st  Place, or at least in the top two primary.

Seattle City Attorney is a non-partisan elected position (As are many other similar type of municipal offices in the Western US).

Seattle does have a voters guide where folks can read about various candidates for local elected office.

I suspect that many voters weren't closely attuned to this particular election, but fwiw I believe Davison has said that she voted Democratic for the past four Presidential Elections, so even for those somewhat following the election she likely didn't come off a complete nutter (aka Trump Republican).

https://info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/Vote/contests/candidates.aspx?cid=66659&candidateid=1592991&lang=en-US&pamphletson=true#cnd1592991

[NOVA Green]

Very excited for the final precinct map.

Yeah--- should be interesting.

For those not aware King County will actually post an initial precinct map on their website 11/5/21 and a final one by 11/24/21.

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/results/2021/202111.aspx

[NOVA Green]

The elephant in the room here is that the progressive coalition aside from SAlt—Progressive Party and Democratic progressives, People’s Party, and DSA—went too far in their campaign rhetoric. SAlt may be very much into class warfare rhetoric, but they do not advocate for extreme policies the people aren’t ready for and that would lead to confusion and are not the ones to advocate violent rhetoric against property. SAlt focuses on simple stuff like minimum wage increases, affordable housing, and advocates police reform and defunding for community programs (it should be noted that Kshama Sawant has worked with employing the current police chief and her party views police as workers like any other).

None of the other parties had much idea of cooking together, and they didn’t know what to serve against the big order of the duopoly, so we had incompetent cooks in the kitchen and the more experienced chef was too preoccupied with not wasting enough resources so as to cook tomorrow.

Yeah--- should chat with my older Sister sometime soon, since she has been involved in Seattle activist politics from Indivisible to the present, so curious what her take is on this since she has a really good finger on the pulse of the Progressive Left scene in Seattle with tons of coalition building backgrounds and experience meeting many elected political figures in Seattle over the years...

[NOVA Green]

Davison's lead is only +5 now, but there aren't enough ballots left to change the outcome. Data was just released for precinct results from election night:



Broadmoor was 94.46% Davison, 98.12% Harrell.

I see the majority nonwhite areas south of I-90 favored NTK, and that Capitol Hill is split in half (north = Davison, south = NTK)

Good call....  vast majority of minority majority precincts appear to have voted FOR NTK and it was the overwhelmingly Anglo precinct which voted against.

Sister lives in South Seattle not far from MLK and Rainier, but even just briefly eyeballing the precinct with overlaps, looks like the most heavily Asian-American precincts voted for NTK, even with the population tending largest Vietnamese-American with a decent Chinese-American component.

So basically looks like White wealthy Seattle Liberals voted for law and order?

Will be interesting to see final precinct results and see how that matches up with precinct coding by population.

On surface appears to have some similarities with the PDX Mayoral Results, but also differences.