What Went Down During The 2021 Elections

The early votes are counted in the Buffalo mayor’s race, and 65 percent of them went to a write-in candidate. Write-ins won’t officially be tabulated for a while, but we can assume that the vast majority of those are for incumbent Mayor Byron Brown, who lost the Democratic primary to democratic socialist India Walton in June and has now mounted a write-in campaign.

I posed this question earlier today:

And I think I found a winner.

Someone suggested a platypus as the animal that best embodies the U.S. political system and electorate. Someone suggested a “bull in a china shop.” (That’s cheating though, by including the setting.) Someone suggested a cat that can’t make up it’s mind whether it wants to be inside or outside. Someone suggested cicadas. But I like this suggestion from @BeachHart:

A gold fish. Insulated from the rest of the world and incapable of forming long term memories.

I’m still taking suggestions though!

Based on analysis of the vote, ABC News projects that the Republican Mike Carey will win the race in Ohio’s 15th’s District. He faced Democrat Allison Russo; the two were vying control of the seat vacated by former GOP Rep. Steve Stivers.