Tinkering With The Math

By Kleinheider Posted on July 18, 2008 at 7:39 am

Jackson Baker gives the 9th District Democratic Congressional Primary his signature treatment:

Tinker’s decision to run again this year is probably influenced more by simple mathematics than anything else. Having finished only a few thousand votes back of Cohen in a field of 15, most of whom (including Cohen himself) competed with her for the district’s black vote, why should she not, two years later, try to go one-on-one?

She has been designated as a “consensus” black candidate this time around by several holdouts for the idea that a black, and only a black, should represent the 9th District in Congress. Perhaps foremost among those is the Rev. LaSimba Gray, who led a failed effort to settle on such a candidate two years ago but whose choice this time around was almost a matter of default.

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Tags: , Jackson Baker, Nikki Tinker, Steve Cohen  

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