Los Angeles mayoral election 2013

[Tender Branson]

The 2013 Los Angeles mayoral election will be held on March 5, 2013, to elect the mayor of Los Angeles. If no candidate receives a majority of the primary votes to be elected outright, the top two finishers will advance to a runoff vote on May 21, 2013.

Incumbent mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is ineligible to run because of term limits.

Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan.

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Latest poll from SurveyUSA (data collected: 02/14/2013 - 02/17/2013):

26% Eric Garcetti (D)
23% Wendy Greuel (D)
14% Kevin James (R)
12% Jan Perry (D)
  6% Emanuel Pleitez
  3% Addie Miller
  2% Norton Sandler
  1% Yehuda Draiman
13% Undecided

Greuel has the best trend though:



Cell-phone and home-phone respondents included in this research: SurveyUSA interviewed 1,000 city of Los Angeles adults 02/14/13 through 02/17/13. Of the adults, 820 were registered to vote. Of the registered, 509 were determined by SurveyUSA to have already voted, or to be likely to return a ballot on or before 03/05/13, Primary Election Day. This research was conducted using blended sample, mixed mode. Respondents reachable on a home telephone (83% of likely voters) were interviewed on their home telephone in the recorded voice of a professional announcer. Respondents not reachable on a home telephone (17% of likely voters) were shown a questionnaire on their smartphone, tablet or other electronic device.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=9ed023e3-fb9e-4597-8017-f3172ff3febf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_mayoral_election,_2013

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Tough choice between Garcetti and Greuel. They're both highly qualified and could be great stars in the Democratic party.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Voted for Garcetti.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Am I the only one who though Kevin James was this guy?


Anyway, Garcetti

[Maxwell]

Am I the only one who though Kevin James was this guy?


Anyway, Garcetti

I did too, because, through google search, I learned that he is actually a Republican.

Nevertheless, still Kevin James.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I'm very much undecided still. The only candidate I've heard anything substantial about is Greuel, because she's the only one who's been hitting me with ads.

[Napoleon]

Write in Villaraigosa

[Likely Voter]

The real Kevin James is even more embarassing, best known for this infamous Hardball appearance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0d8ENS__c  

Later he appeared on The Daily Show where they mercilessly made fun of how stupid he was...to his face. Sad GOP cant come up with a better candidate.

Im voting for Garcetti

[bgwah]

The real Kevin James is even more embarassing, best known for this infamous Hardball appearance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0d8ENS__c   

Later he appeared on The Daily Show where they mercilessly made fun of how stupid he was...to his face. Sad GOP cant come up with a better candidate.

Im voting for Garcetti

Wow, he's annoying.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

James, even if he's a really bad candidate.

[Likely Voter]

FYI to conservatives knee-jerk support of James just because he is a republican. Besides being openly stupid, he is also openly gay. Of course that doesn't matter to the rest of us but thought you might like to know.  You may want to look at the nice (married to a woman) catholic boy Emanuel Pleitez who is fiscally conservative. And even though she is a Dem, Wendy Greuel talks a lot about cutting waste and renegotiating with the unions.

[badgate]

I voted for Wendy

[Tender Branson]

In the latest SurveyUSA poll, Greuel has pulled slightly ahead:

28% Wendy Greuel (D)
26% Eric Garcetti (D)
15% Kevin James (R)
12% Jan Perry (D)
  9% Emanuel Pleitez
  1% Addie Miller
  1% Norton Sandler
  1% Yehuda Draiman
  7% Undecided

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=0a320e95-47f4-4a51-a965-42ddfb5e83bf

Good trend for Greuel:

[Tender Branson]

The LA Times poll finds about the same:

[Likely Voter]

I voted for Garcetti

Seems almost certain there will be a Greuel/Garcetti runoff in May. Hard to say who would win that one. Anyone seen any two-way polling?

[Keystone Phil]

I read an article about Garcetti being a "secret Republican" because he paid to have his name on some Republican slate mailer.

Seems like just something that was done to get as many votes as possible though. Nothing more.

[bgwah]

I read an article about Garcetti being a "secret Republican" because he paid to have his name on some Republican slate mailer.

Seems like just something that was done to get as many votes as possible though. Nothing more.

You just like his name.

[Keystone Phil]

I read an article about Garcetti being a "secret Republican" because he paid to have his name on some Republican slate mailer.

Seems like just something that was done to get as many votes as possible though. Nothing more.

You just like his name.

He's only part Italian.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I'm supporting Greuel, at least in the primary. She's a lady, and she's from my part of the city.

[rob in cal]

   To those who voted today, what were the lines, if any, like?   Also, why wasn't there a high profile hispanic candidate?

[SPC]

  To those who voted today, what were the lines, if any, like?   Also, why wasn't there a high profile hispanic candidate?

I was the only person who voted when I went it in my precinct. Extrapolating from that, James probably got 100% of the vote here.

[Napoleon]

I'm supporting Greuel, at least in the primary. She's a lady, and she's from my part of the city.

I like Garcetti, but is there any more substantive reason I should prefer Greul?

[Tender Branson]

Garcetti won by 33-29 over Greuel, with 100% counted.

The Times poll was more accurate than SurveyUSA.

[njwes]

Really nice maps from the LA Times, I can't post the link but they're on the front page of the website

[Benj]

Pretty cool, thanks for the tip. http://graphics.latimes.com/la-mayoral-maps/#10/34.0492/-118.6008

Looks like the election was basically SFV + San Pedro (Greuel) v. Central and West LA (Garcetti) v. South Central (Perry). James had no real regional base of support except that he only did well in rich areas (of course), including the fringes of the SFV and Westchester. Even Pleitez won two precincts in El Sereno, though otherwise he seems to have done quite poorly even in heavily Hispanic areas.