Philadelphia mayoral election poll

[pikachu]

The Democratic Party primary for mayor of Philadelphia is in less than a week and it looks like Jim Kenney has taken a commanding lead.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/mayor/Democratic_primary_poll.html

Poll is:
Jim Kenney (former City Councilman): 42%
Lynne Abraham (former D.A.): 15%
Anthony Williams (State Senator): 15%
Nelson Diaz (former judge): 5%
Doug Oliver (PA Gas Works exec): 3%
Milton Street (brother of former May. John Street): 3%
Undecided: 14%

[traininthedistance]

Good.  Kenney is the best of the bunch. (Diaz is also alright, but he has no chance.)

[traininthedistance]

For the uninitiated:

Kenney is a former At-Large councilman originally from South Philly who has been moving steadily leftward in his two decades there.  He's locked up LGBT and labor support, has come around to supporting MJ decriminalization, ending stop-and-frisk (but keeping on the current Police Commissioner), and he's made the best noises on environmental and urbanism issues.  He's fine.

Anthony Hardy Williams, who was supposed to be the frontrunner, has been recently trying to capitalize on his status as the "black candidate" (Doug Oliver is also black but he's young and unknown), but it's coming across as transparent pandering.  Also he is deeply in bed with the charter schools.

Lynne Abraham is a former DA and is presumably getting the old-timer "law and order" vote.

Nelson Diaz is decent as far as I can tell but just hasn't been able to get any momentum.  I don't know much about Doug Oliver.  Milton Street... lol.  And I guess there's a Republican running, for what that's worth.

ED: Here's a pretty good synopsis of what's going on.

[Ebsy]

Any defeat for the charter schools is good in my books.

[traininthedistance]

One could very easily make the analogy that:

Jim Kenney = Bill de Blasio
Anthony Hardy Williams = Bill Thompson
Lynne Abraham = Christine Quinn

It's not perfect, and the minor candidates don't really map that well (you might try to compare the ethnic enclave support of John Liu with Nelson Diaz, but Diaz is a good man and Liu is a corrupt assbucket, so I don't want to do that), but it sorta works.

[SATW]

Lynne Abraham has my support.

[Vega]

Voted Jim Kenney.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Voted Jim Kenney.

Good man

[Gass3268]

Congrats to Philly!

[ChainsawJedis]

Not really familiar with Philadelphia politics. Saw an ad for Kenny on the news, did some research and liked what I saw. Does being mayor of Phili put him in a good position for even higher office, governor or senator perhaps, or is it more of a ceremonial post?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Not really familiar with Philadelphia politics. Saw an ad for Kenny on the news, did some research and liked what I saw. Does being mayor of Phili put him in a good position for even higher office, governor or senator perhaps, or is it more of a ceremonial post?

It very well could as Rendell obviously did well for himself and Nutter was spoken about for higher positions before he was absolutely terrible. The only issue is that he will be 61 at the end of his first term, 65 at the end of the 2nd. He's been around awhile, so it's hard to finally go above mayor in your late 60s especially considering he has to luck out with a higher job opening in all likelihood. It'd be nice though.