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luce
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Yep, i think everyone would agree that one single candidate who captured a majority of votes would win.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
K.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
And i think the difference matters because i think progressives have, 2 elections in a row now, overestimated the breadth and depth of discontent with Frey.
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It feels like we're not really responding to the same thing? The exact language used, which i quibbled with, was "most people can't stand" Frey. I think that's a mischaracterization in the face of an election where at least a small majority of voters used their votes to say they find him acceptable.
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We need to stop treating it as self-evident that Frey is a disaster of a mayor. There's not some unicorn candidate who could have tapped into this silent majority of anti-Frey guys because that silent majority doesn't exist in any coherent way.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Her point seems to be that people's hatred of Frey is so strong that it would have been an easy win with a "better" candidate. My point is, i think the votes show, sadly, that anti-Frey sentiment isn't as strong as some believed.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yeah, fair. I do think people are quick to fall back on "established" wisdom in the face of upsetting results.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Like what?
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
9-3 & 9-4
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I think we need to be honest that the bias faced by the Somali/Somali-American community in MN may overlap but is not the same as that faced by the African-American community. Willingness to vote for Davis in no way suggests a lack of racial/ethnic bias against Fateh.
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Which only goes to show the meaninglessness of that kind of polling; funny place to hang your hat in the face of electoral numbers that show clearly how many voters are ok w/ Frey.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Where do you get the idea that most "can't stand" Frey? Feels fundamentally like a misdiagnosis... the majority of voters showed through ranking him that they CAN stand him. That's the actual problem to confront.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Exactly. As if the Left prevented moderates from rallying around a candidate more aligned with their values. People are desperate to blame the Left to hide the fact that they could have had a different outcome and CHOSE this one.
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by luce
2. Blaming the far-left for rallying around a candidate who matched their values is dumb. It wasn’t like they didn’t support the slate.
3. The real blame might be folks a lot like Eric Roper, or me … center-lefties. We never recovered from Koski leaving to lift up Davis/Hampton. We had no juice.
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Yes. There's a real laziness/fear on the Left around addressing this head on. Laziness in assuming one big happy family of marginalized people, and a fear of repercussion for tackling head on some very ugly biases that undermine big tent campaigns.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
And if it's an argument in good faith with pro-worker interests at heart, then the correct conclusion is, "Let's hold union-busting men accountable, too!" rather than letting her off the hook.
September 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Yeah, what are these? Suddenly they've taken over the exterior of my house...
August 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It's gone. Sad.
August 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM