Originally Posted by
getalife123
Dion Watkins has an almost impossible chance of winning the election. He is running a write-in campaign against a candidate that has the politicial and financial backing of the Democratic Party. The Democrats have nearly 90% of the registered voters in Lackawanna. Beating the politicial machine and the crony politics in Lackawanna makes any outsider's chance of winning a long shot at best.
The Democrats have taken advantage of the City for generations and now that they may actually have someone that can beat the system has them running scared. Many of the voters that I have talked to are tired of the lack of leadership that this city has demonstrated. Dividing the community is what they do best and the lack of ideas to improve the city is their platform. When failed policies are your platform and maintaining the status quo is your only claim to fame you had better distroy any oppositon.
In the past, the elections in Lackawanna usually ended with the primary. As we have seen over the past month, the Democratic nominee has not tried to expand his platform. They thought the election was over already. Now with someone that has a chance to upset the cart they have no idea what to do, hense all the politicial bull that they are spewing.
This is politics and stranger things have happened. Imagine this city with no real ties to the Democratic Party. The politicially connected in this city must be pucking all over themselves.