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Election Results vs Predictions

Posted by Randy Anderson on April 2, 2008

Now that the elections are over, lets see how I did against my predictions that I posted on March 16th, 2008.

I was wrong  on the Mayor choice, I chose Stepaniak and Didier won, I was correct in the County Exec'c race - Walker won so that is 50%.

In the Alderperson race I was wrong about Dist 1,4 and 5 races but was correct in all the other races for Alderperson (I know 4 of those 5 were pretty easy picks) so that is 62%

I missed on the District 15 county supervisor race - even though he carried the Tosa vote he lost overall so that is 0%

I missed on the appointment for district 5 (since Stepaniak lost, he won't give up his seat) so that is 0%.  Now that Didier has won I wonder who will be appointed to that seat in District 4, Grimm or someone new??

Overall score is  50%, this just enforces my choice not to gamble.

14,045 people voted in Wauwatosa out of about 33,000 registered voters for about a 42% turnout for the election.  That is very disappointing that it was less than 50%.  I talked to about 50 people between the ages of 20-35 who did not vote because they felt it wouldn't matter to they didn't know there was an election as excuses for not voting.  We, as a community, need to do a better job of educating the importance of voting in any election.

That is just  "MY TWO CENTS"