Omaha has decided that it was time to give Jim Suttle a chance instead of returning Hal Daub to the Mayors office. In the Omaha World Herald they brought up the point that Suttle received as many votes for him as Daub had against him. So does this mean that a pro-suttle slash anti-Daub coalition pushed Suttle over the top.
Generally this plan in campaigns does not work i.e. John Kerry with the anti-Bush vote in 2004 for. A campaign of "vote for me because I am not the other guy usually does not fly" with voters. The truth is that in registered voters Omaha is 44% democrat and 35% republican. Granted most of those democrats are conservative and many times vote republican. But is this a sign or a signal of things to come. Jim Suttle ran towards the democratic party and used it and exploited East Omaha. Suttle seemed to be able to answer questions about his lack of details in his plans to govern by stating "that he waned to listen to Omahans to help with solutions for the problems in Omaha". Thats a fine Utopian Wilsonian view but that does not usually govern very well. Suttle has challenges ahead of him and its hard for me to see him lasting more than one-term. As for Hal Daub he has lost two races for his old job now and his political future seems uncertain.
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