Except for the fact that Reed didn't for for a property tax increase. But let's not let the facts get in the way of your Demagoguery.

"Blacks who vote for the black candidate on the basis of race are conscientious voters. Whites who vote for the white candidate on the basis of race are --- racists." Thank you for saying what we have all been thinking but were afraid to say out loud because we'd be call racists.

Yes, Atlanta votes on racial lines (black mostly) but there is another important factor that plays in favor of Norwood, she is a female. Gender is a political issue. Never leave that out. Look at it this way, if a white male was the very best candidate for mayor in Atlanta he would not get even 5% of the vote because of his skin color and what he is packing in his crotch area. He would just be wasting his time. It is stupid but true. Being on the correct side of solid issues doesn't get one elected in Atlanta. Skin and gender does.

Yes, it's true about EX Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin's glasses...and let's not forget the hats!! What a waste of 2 terms.


Congrats to Dayton's Mayor Elect Gary Leitzell...an INDEPENDENT!!!

I would never vote for anyone with any kind of name like Kasim, Barak, Hussein, Masood, Abdullah, Darius, etc.

I will always vote for the most American sounding name and hope that will give me the best results.

I think that will at least help a little in reducing the chances of special interests and attention going to places where it does not belong.

The black person will win.

Obama won with ticked off Reps and their misguided protest votes AND black voters who have never seen the inside of a voting booth voting for a black face - they will never support a white candidate with the same fervor. Obama is a one shot candidate, the lamest of ducks after 2010, and this juvenile experiment will be over.

I doubt many blacks even know who Jesse Helms is because most Americans don't even know the number of states in the country! Pop culture drives most Ameican thinking.

Where's General Sherman at, now that Atlanta needs him the most???

First off, DB, incorrect. Blacks vote Democrat first. Race when it comes to Democrats to blacks is incidental. In 2004, blacks supported Kerry 88%-11%. That same year, Obama won his senate seat, he got 92% of the black vote even though his Republican counterpart, Alan Keyes was also black. If you put a black Republican up against a white Democrat I guarantee you that the white Democrat would get a vast majority of the black vote. Again, this is a statement of fact. Unless you have some data to prove me wrong.

What does race or gender have to do with the incompetence of the people managing the Atlanta Watershed. In my oipinion any government that cannot deliver a basic government service (as water is) with any degree of efficiency should be overthrown.

Rockhound

I disagree. Blacks vote for blacks first.

Death, taxes, and African Americans refusing to vote for white candidates. Those are the three absolute locks in life.

Doubtless the people voting for Kasim Reed will be the same people who demanded that Michael Vick not go to jail for comitting multiple federal crimes.

Welfare Nation - RISE UP! The ballot box needs you.

I agree with Stan. In a nation that's historically been run by dead white racist slaveowners, is it really such a problem for to have those of Africamerica running something as small as a city? Most of you don't even live in Atlanta, so why do you even care? In Reed we have a cerebral, thoughtful, articulate individual who understands what it's like for most of his residents to live under oppressive white rule. In the other candidate what do you have? A woman (remember stupid Palin is a woman) whose name is the same as the chart used to measure the level of baldness someone has.

That's your choice. A thoughtful, contemporary, cosmopolitan, intelligent man with dark skin, or a woman named after the baldness chart with the same white skin you see on every other politician.

Now go vote for Mary and think it's not racist!

Her last ad was her mistake. To win she need to tie Kasim Reed to Shirley Franklin.