For the Sunday that is the last day before the start of early voting, the Chron brings us their overview of the Mayor’s race. And a theme we’ve seen expressed once or twice before.
Political analysts predict Mayor Annise Parker has a virtual lock on a second term, but she still has a lot at stake in next month’s election.
Winning isn’t enough, the experts say. She needs to win big to head off a challenge in 2013 and to give her a stronger hand with the City Council.
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Too slim a majority in November, some observers say, could encourage a stronger challenge two years from now.
Lobbyist and blogger Robert Miller points to former Mayor Lee Brown, who in 1999 won re-election to a second term with just 67 percent of the vote against two largely unknown candidates.
As a result, Brown drew a stronger challenge in 2001 and was forced into a run-off to win re-election.
sigh I think I have a pretty good idea now how Leibniz must have felt. Maybe I need to register as a lobbyist.
Anyway. With the possible exception of what some of the other, minor characters in this race have to say, there’s probably not much in there that you didn’t already know. My interview with Mayor Parker is here, and my interview with Fernando Herrera is here.