Norwalk Mayor’s Race in Dollars and Sense

A couple of Sunday’s ago, Steve Serasis, Democratic candidate for mayor in Norwalk held a fundraiser at the Norwalk Inn. The results are in, Serasis’ latest campaign finance numbers show that he raised $975. Compared to Richard Moccia, Republican incumbent who mayoral campaign raised $9700, and the money race hints at a very land slidish election heading into next Tuesday.

How much of a landslide is makingthe rounds of the usual political flunkies laying down the bets that campaign vets often make. Total voter turnout, percentage of the vote for each candidate. In many ways, it’s the political version of fantasy football, watching the line and, er, no one really bets on football right?

I will be honing in on my predictions soon. I’m ready with one thought. I don’t think the total voter turnout in the mayoral race tops 10.5k voters. Soon the slice and dice of those numbers, my picks on who will win and why and what the issues really are.

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  • OLD TIMER

    The Hour today ran a poll and Serasis got 54.37% , Moccia got 34.57%, Merrell got 3.43%, and undecided got 7.63%. Moccia has more wealthy friends, but there are a lot of people looking for a change.

  • Kurm Udgeon

    Believing anything the “Minute er Hour” says about anything is tantamount to believing that the stork brings babies, or the leprichauns have a pot o gold at the end of the rainbow. It is not a bastian of credible reportage, or accuracy. Don’t bet the rent money on their handicapping of anything or the shelter will have another occupant.

  • OLD TIMER

    No reporting involved. The HOUR has been running a poll in the online edition. Readers vote and a computer keeps track. They have run straw polls in schools for years and those tend to be pretty accurate predictors of the vote. The HOUR poll amounts to the same process.
    If the result favored your choice, I’m betting you would be bragging about the results, instead of criticizing the source..

  • Secondhand Rose

    I don’t know if you can believe this poll at all. Yesterday morning before 11am, the poll was running 55% in favor of Moccia and 26% in favor of Serasis. Gotta wonder, especially when you consider that if you have more than 1 computer at home, you can vote in the poll more than once – or vote more than once at work too. There’s no infallable way to prove these results.

  • OLD TIMER

    Of course an informal straw poll is far from infallible. But, we have numbers that are hard to ignore, however flawed they may be. The difference between the votes for Serasis and the votes for Moccia is a surprisingingly big number.

  • turfgrrl

    Old Timer: Any poll can be compromised if it allows multiple votes from the same computer.

  • Secondhand Rose

    It doesn’t allow multiple votes from the *same* computer on the *same* day. But if you have more than one computer in the home (or at work) you can vote as many times as you have computers, one vote per computer per day.

    The way it was explained to me is that each computer has its own IP address, which allows one person to vote as many times that day as they have computers (2 computers and 1 laptop = 3 votes per day on a single subject, for example).

    And The Hour’s poll is also configured so that if you vote on Monday, you can’t vote on that question again *that day* – but come Tuesday you can again vote on the same question you voted on the day before. At least, that’s how it appears to be working, anyway.

  • computer geek

    All you have to do is clear out your cookies and then vote again from the same computer… over and over again, all day long.

  • OLD TIMER

    What we are all agreeing on, for once, is that the straw poll taken by the HOUR is not fool proof and the results may not mean much. Straw polls taken in the schools, with some supervision to prevent multiple votes, are probably better indicators of how the real voting will go. Straw polls taken anywhere, with some way to prevent multiple votes, are better indicators. Unfortunately, in local elections, neither party has the money to commission professional polling. The HOUR poll numbers are now favoring Moccia by 54.03% to 37.72% for Serasis. Somebody has been busy.

  • Mikey

    Oh is that what the Republicans are doing..

  • Barnstorm

    I don’t care much for the poll numbers or even The HOUR all that much. What concerns me is there’s actually more than one voter who leans towards the cowboy hat. What’s this world coming to?

  • The Coach

    Had a friend who voted on the Hour site…one vote!, and it changed the percentage…Just how many could have possably voted if this occures?

    • Mikey

      The hour poll is far far from any indication of who is going to win…If it were Serasis would be ahead…I have yet to speak to anyone except the blind republican puppets on this site (yourct.com=fox news of Norwalk) that are voting for Moccia….Thankfully he is out of here come next week…Then and only then can we start to rebuild the mess he has made…Such a shame how the democrats always have to fix the Republican mess…

      • turfgrrl

        Mikey: Funny how you characterize anyone who doesn’t buy into your simplistic “gotta go” rhetoric as a Republican. Since most people, except for you , actually try and discuss the issues, that would make you more like the he said/she said talking heads of fox news. No, this site is not the fox news of Norwalk, so stop trying to drag every post into uselessness.

        • Mikey

          turfgrrl what even funnier than that is how you only seem to support the republican agaenda…Unfortunitly at this point in Norwalk Moccia and Rilling do as you put it “gotta go”…See sometime that is the answer…In the private sector when you have employee that continues not to meet expectations and not to do there job effectively the answer is “gotta go”

          • turfgrrl

            Mikey: To paraphrase a great Republican President, There you go again. If the “Republican Agenda” is to make Norwalk into a 21st Century City, then yep, guilty as charged. Somehow I think you mean something else, but since you like to use the comments here as a drive by shooting off of your pet peeves, I’ll just continue on my perfectly obvious agenda of providing a forum where all can discuss all the issues that challenge Norwalk. A diversity of opinion is what makes Democracy tick.

          • Mikey

            Oh now you can do better than that…But there you go again sticking with your little group’s simplistic views …You keep proving my points..As far as Norwalk 21st century oh please…Its going back to the 19th century as its getting like the wild west under this administration.

          • Mikey

            “I’ll just continue on my perfectly obvious agenda of providing a forum where all can discuss all the issues that challenge Norwalk” and whats funny is that you really believe that…

        • NorwalkSpectator

          Come on, Turfie, comaring Fox News to Mikey is a bit unfair to Fox, don’t you think? ;-P

          • Mikey

            Wow I love the way you suck up to as you call her Turfie….I seem to be the only one on here to have the nerve to tell her how wrong she is….This site is like Fox of Norwalk you all stick together and your all wrong… The hour.com seems to be a but more fair and balanced as the management of that site does not take sides…fair and balanced…It also seem to give a true look of what Norwalk really has become…..HUMMMM

          • turfgrrl

            Mikey: Riight, like posting under an anonymous handle shows nerve. You can think whatever you want, it’s a free country, but all you do is spout what you think, not facts, and you can’t even back your opinion up with any logic. Why not try?

          • Mikey

            And the name turfgrrl is not an anonymous handle….I have yet to see any facts from you…You say you have facts but you never seem to produce them..I on the other hand have pointed out the many many crimes that are happening in Norwalk…But you and the other puppets say these are not facts…I suggest you ask the family of the dead guy from the bullet in his head…I bet they would call that a fact.

          • turfgrrl

            Mikey: Oh come on, you think your blatant lies that are so easily dismissed with a click on this site are worth responding to? They aren’t. So enjoy the afternoon.

          • Mikey

            That is why you keep responding…. you also enjoy the afternoon and please be safe as we all know Norwalk is in the Middle of a crime wave

          • turfgrrl

            NorwalkSpectator: LOL :)

  • Steward

    Will we get East Norwalker’s prognostication?

  • OLD TIMER

    It’s all about voter turnout. Big turnout means we get a new mayor. Poor turnout means two more years of the same old same old. Serasis has worked hard to get a turnout while Moccia worked hard to keep from putting his foot too far into his mouth. He tried to make it sound like he added to the police force. Then, the same night, one of the council candidates said we are 20 officers short. Somebody lied ? or just misinformed ?
    Think about it, when was the last time you saw a police officer doing radar speeding enforcement ? What few we have on the street are too busy responding to calls to do much of anything else. Always reacting. No crime prevention, just responding after crimes are committed. Sure there are occasional exceptions, but not often enough to make Mikey, and a lot of others, feel safe

  • Together we CAN make it better.

    Mikey, you blew up The Hour’s comments section, maybe you could please try and make more positive suggestions and try and tone down the rhetoric a bit.
    That goes for us all.
    Its screwed up, lets get busy and begin to work together and really make it better.

    • Mikey

      Funny thing is that its not me that blew up the hours comment sections….But as far as you say rhetoric ….thats not the case, what the fact of the matter is its a solution and the solution is to vote Moccia out of office…he is making a mess of Norwalk….

  • Land slide? Crunch time everyone.

  • Ya Gotta do, what ya gotta do, for rock and roll ya know?

  • twotix

    I voted this morning…I have voted since 1978…never once for a dumbocrat who thinks the electorate is incapable of independent thought.