Who Do You Like In This Upcoming Mayoral Election?

Bostonians, who do you support in the upcoming mayoral election?

  • Mayor Tom Menino

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Michael Flaherty

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Sam Yoon

    Votes: 6 50.0%
  • Kevin McCrea

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Other (explain in post)

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Total voters
    12

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This poll is intended for Bostonians registered for the upcoming mayoral election, but everyone else should feel free to chime in -- the city of Boston plays a vital role in the region and its policies have a profound effect on those towns and cities within its sphere..."suburbanites" and others, just comment, but please dont vote here. :)

So, Bostonians on the board, who do you like in this election and why? Non-Bostonians following the election, who do you like and why?
 
I will probably vote for Sam Yoon although I think Mike Flaherty will prevail in the primary. I think Mike will make a good, if boring, mayor, and will definitely vote for him in November over the Mayor, whose time has come and gone. Mike can be considered a hack, given that he comes from a political family and also because a lot of his support comes from the old Boston, like the firefighters, etc., who have their own agendas, but I think Mike is smart and sincere, two things I feel are very important in an elected leader.

I don't feel that children are getting any better an education than when the Mayor first came on board. His fault? Not necessarily, but he hasn't helped. Crime has gone down, which is a result of a good economy, hard work on the part of the police department, and ... luck?

But, the Mayor is not a visionary and for that I don't want to give him any more chances. Neither is Mike, nor is Sam, probably, but I don't want to reward the Mayor for being mediocre, any longer.

The gay community loved the Mayor; he was a very good friend to us. Having said that, it's just not that important, anymore. Every politician is a friend to our community. Mike has been a strong supporter, as well. And, from what I hear on the street, Mike is going to do quite well with members of "my" community. Good.

It's not necessarily a bad thing that Boston has as strong mayor / weak city council set-up, but it's a shame that, with the power the Mayor had, he didn't do more to bring our city forward.

Visionaries aren't always necessary, but I prefer them. We have no visionaries on the ballot, so I'll have to settle for "better" over "good".
 
There's something to be said for youthful optimism
 
"There's something to be said for youthful optimism"

Because staying at a Holiday Inn Express and having a catchy slogans makes one highly qualified to be mayor.
 
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I am Voting for Mayor MENINO when I anm 18n soon. He is BORNE of Boston AND is speaking of the same language.
 
I live in Cambridge, where I will suffer the externalities of your decisions without having any say, but I'm not really sure what that say would be. I'm naturally inclined to dump Menino as his tenure's gotten stale - there's something to be said for a vital city politics as an end in and of itself, beyond petty challenges to individual projects. Moreover, I love the idea of Sam Yoon symbolizing the death of old Boston, which has always alienated me and probably a lot of people from the area.

But policywise, I worry that Yoon would just accelerate worrying trends, like the balkanization of urban development approval into panels of activist NIMBYs (euphemistically referred to as "the community," as always). He claims he'll balance this with long term visions for the city, but this promise is far emptier content-wise than his concrete proposal to bury the BRA.
 
I think I might vote for menino...

Pros:
Big push for bike stuff
Decent green effort
Things havent been getting worse

Con:
Made clubs 21+
Tried to get rid of payphones
Things havent been getting better

Neutral:
Development. Will the others really make it easier to build big?
 
Just out of curiosity I checked the metro poll today:

Mayor Thomas Menino 29%

City Councilor Michael Flaherty 51%

City Councilor Sam Yoon 18%

Kevin McCrea 1%

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Number of votes: 1925
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Source
 
Completely worthless online poll. When will we have the actual results?

Ok. You pick what "The Metro" poll numbers mean:

A) Shattering of Asian and Irish sterotypes concerning use of technology?

B) Bullet "voting" by the Flaherty camp (confirming Irish political sterotype)?

C) High correlation between semi-literacy and high Flaherty/low Yoon support?

D) Proof of the proposition that even idiots don't buy McCrae?

E) Proof that after Mr. Mayor is re-elected, the city's lucrative legal notice advertising business will never land with "The Metro" and will instead be given to the "Spare Change Newspaper".
 
Mayor Menino - shrug
Mike Flaherty - more of the same... but worse
Yoon - Rent control? Moron.

McCrea - only guy running without an office in City Hall. He's made good money and been successful in the real world, so how hard can it be to be successful in government?

Menino will win with around 60-65% of the vote in November. So if you want to vote with the losers, then throw your vote to the ultimate loser, it'll make the loudest statement.
 
D) Proof of the proposition that even idiots don't buy McCrae?

Mayor Menino - shrug
Mike Flaherty - more of the same... but worse
Yoon - Rent control? Moron.

McCrea - only guy running without an office in City Hall. He's made good money and been successful in the real world, so how hard can it be to be successful in government?
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Menino needs to go. The alternatives arent much better but we gotta kick this dude off his pedestal. So Flaherty I guess? Hope he gets booted after first term.
Voting against Menino and possibly for a worst canidate might be a means to an end.
 

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