If the mayor election was to be held today, who would you vote for?

[Midtowner]

If the mayor election was to be held today, who would you vote for? (closes in 14 days)

[Plutonic Panda]

Mick

[soonerguru]

I voted.

[mkjeeves]

Two things...there was a similar poll here maybe a week ago. Not much has changed. Second,
Needs an other choice. Im sure some have decided to reject both candidates or not vote for whatever reason other than undecided.


I dont think theres much question Mick will be reelected. I can't guess what voter turnout will be.

[Spartan]

Gotta love these threads, the only way I get a vote lol

[soonerguru]

Unscientific or no, loving these results so far!

[Midtowner]

The number of votes is surprising. It seems there are a lot of lurkers who follow these threads.

[soonerguru]

I'm wondering if "Undecided" can overtake Ed Shadid. It's pretty close for second place.

[betts]

I also think that what's impressive about this is that this forum probably has a more progressive bias than the average population of OKC. These aren't just Republicans voting for Mick because Ed is more liberal. As I've said, all the Democrats whom I know are voting for Mick as well. All the smart young progressives I know are voting for Mick.

The lurkers aren't voting,however. There's an old statistic that for every forum member who posts there are 100 who don't. For every member there are 100 lurkers. Perhaps some members who don't usually post are voting, but the lurkers can't because they aren't members. If you could extrapolate this data, and you probably can't because all the Ed supporters will vote and a lot of Mick supporters, sadly, will assume he's going to win, you could predict an unprecidented landslide.

[bchris02]

It's important for Mick supporters to vote. Ed supporters will all be voting so if Mick supporters stay home, Ed could end up winning. Anybody who wants Mick Cornett to remain mayor of OKC, no matter how the polls look, needs to get out and vote.

[ljbab728]

It's important for Mick supporters to vote. Ed supporters will all be voting so if Mick supporters stay home, Ed could end up winning. Anybody who wants Mick Cornett to remain mayor of OKC, no matter how the polls look, needs to get out and vote.

I suspect you're preaching to the choir here. Everyone needs to bring this up to people they know in person.

[soonerguru]

Undecided is catching up.

[catch22]

Undecided is catching up.

Certainly looks like the race is tightening up between the undecided and the misled.

[PhiAlpha]

Certainly looks like the race is tightening up between the undecided and the mislED.

There, fixed it for ya

[soonerguru]

I realize this is hardly a statistical sample, but these results suggest Shadid is going to get crushed in this election.

[Pete]

The number of votes is surprising. It seems there are a lot of lurkers who follow these threads.

Over 90% of our traffic is unregistered on the site and of those registered, only a small percentage posts with any frequency.


We get about 5,000 unique visitors every day and are approaching a million page views per month.

[bradh]

All the smart young progressives I know are voting for Mick.

All the smart young conservatives/Republicans (I know, for some of you that probably sounds like a unicorn or four leaf clover) I know are voting for Mick as well.

Those voting for Ed are the gullible and misguided.

[shawnw]

We get about 5,000 unique visitors every day and are approaching a million page views per month.

Is there a pinned "stats" page for you to report such things, or do you keep any kind of google spreadsheet with these numbers with graphs and such?

[Pete]

Is there a pinned "stats" page for you to report such things, or do you keep any kind of google spreadsheet with these numbers with graphs and such?

I plan to do a monthly "state of the forum" blog once we fully initialize the blogging feature later this month.

We run Google Analytics in the background and have incredibly detailed information about almost everything imaginable.

We know the percentage of those accessing from mobile devices, fluctuations by day and time of day, how people find the site, how long they stay, the pages most visited, where they are located, and on and on.

Also, for the first time I did a tiny bit of advertising on Facebook and Twitter -- basically promoting a few of our more popular threads -- and Facebook in particular gives you astoundingly detailed information about who you reach. By it's nature, Facebook knows more about you than any site and they are becoming an advertising force.


Anyway, more on this in a couple of weeks. It's all very interesting stuff.

[PhiAlpha]

bump

[Larry OKC]

None of the above

[betts]

100 votes are in.

[PhiAlpha]

Oh no, i think I've just been convinced to vote change my vote to Shadid... Edgar, you have a new friend.

[soonerguru]

Undecided has now caught up to Shadid.

[soonerguru]

Oh no, i think I've just been convinced to vote change my vote to Shadid... Edgar, you have a new friend.

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