Hank Sheinkopf
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Hank Sheinkopf
candidates financial houses normal order
It's normal for candidates to try to get their financial houses in order before announcing.
ballot convention knows tactically
It's tactically smart. He knows he's not going to get on the ballot through the convention and he doesn't want to give it any credibility.
catholic men needs white
She needs to do better with white Catholic men from the Midwest.
brooklyn majority prefer rebuke tells
stinging rebuke of the incumbent. What it tells you is that the majority of Brooklyn prefer a change.
clinton plan spending time
Plan to see Sen. Clinton - post-2006 - spending a lot of time in the Midwest.
formal fuel interest levels road step
It's another way to fuel speculation, to see what the interest levels are. It's another step on the road to a formal declaration.
ads argument challenger emotion emotions freddy majority mayor needs positive street vast
Incumbents are re-elected the vast majority of the time, so a challenger like Freddy needs an overwhelming emotion argument in his ads and on the street for why the mayor should be fired. Freddy never went negative, but he had nothing to go positive with, either.
challenged challenger close exceeded question unlike
She's challenged him unlike any other challenger ever has. There's no question she's exceeded expectations. Could this be a close election?