We almost forgot to mention this insight on low turnout for Houston’s city council elections, courtesy of KHOU-11 political analyst Bob Stein:
[S]ince much of politics is about spin, there’s even a positive spin on low turnout.
“Maybe in some respects that’s good news. It’s good news in the sense that the city is run well,” said KHOU political analyst Bob Stein.
Shopping and not voting, he says, may mean less about the state of democracy than the state of overall satisfaction.
That would be the same Bob Stein who helped concoct the illegal, predatory contractual scheme that was a key component of Mayor White’s original SAFEclear program, and whose wife works for the White Administration.
Stein did not add, “perhaps voters took advantage of the good weather to spend the day biking, and that kept them away from the polls.”
