Another At Large race, another incumbent in a runoff. Here’s At Large #3:
Dist JCGonz Kubosh Marcel Janaeya
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A 2,944 7,730 1,698 2,395
B 2,405 5,417 2,293 4,802
C 5,452 17,022 3,402 9,584
D 3,554 8,903 3,052 6,250
E 3,840 14,064 2,335 2,889
F 2,195 3,618 1,404 1,676
G 3,646 18,141 2,756 3,630
H 4,452 4,664 1,168 2,820
I 4,283 3,336 984 1,867
J 1,543 2,777 826 1,170
K 3,092 6,989 2,287 4,567
A 19.94% 52.35% 11.50% 16.22%
B 16.12% 36.31% 15.37% 32.19%
C 15.38% 48.00% 9.59% 27.03%
D 16.33% 40.92% 14.03% 28.72%
E 16.60% 60.81% 10.10% 12.49%
F 24.68% 40.68% 15.79% 18.85%
G 12.94% 64.39% 9.78% 12.88%
H 33.97% 35.59% 8.91% 21.52%
I 40.91% 31.86% 9.40% 17.83%
J 24.43% 43.97% 13.08% 18.52%
K 18.26% 41.27% 13.50% 26.97%
Here’s what the 2015 data looked like. Incumbent Michael Kubosh cruised to an easy win against three white male candidates, with over 60% of the vote. This year he fell short of an outright win; he was over fifty percent after early voting, but could not keep up that pace. This time he had three non-Anglo opponents, and you can see that it had an effect on his numbers. He’s still a strong performer and a heavy favorite to prevail in December, but he did decline from four years ago.
Janaeya Carmouche gets the chance to try again against Kubosh. She’ll benefit from the turnout that Mayor Turner will generate, and she’s the Democrat in this race, but she has no money, she has a 50K vote deficit to make up, and she trailed Kubosh in the three African-American districts. It’s going to take a lot for her to win.
I don’t know what to say about Marcel McClinton. He got a lot of hype for his candidacy – I was called by two different out of town reporters who were supposedly writing about him; I say “supposedly” because I never saw either of the stories that I was talking to them about – but it translated to nothing. He raised little money, he got no major endorsements, and whatever campaign he did have was invisible to me. Being a candidate is hard, especially citywide, and he’s just out of high school, so I don’t intend to be harsh. I’m just kind of puzzled.
Jose Carlos Gonzalez finished two points behind Janaeya Carmouche. I know even less about him. He got the numbers he got. I don’t have anything to add to that.
Gonzalez had two things going, his name and first on the ballot.
Both Him and Flores would have been in run-off if Hispanics had come out in same number as 2015. They were at about 80% of 2015.
I saw McClinton show up at several westside community meetings, and he had a fair number of signs plastered in the medians around town. I just think a citywide contest is difficult for a young first time candidate, unless like Dolcefino, you have a parent’s name ID and a set of endorsements.
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