Considering the Birmingham Mayor’s Race

Birmingham's Statue of VulcanKyle Whitmire’s War on Dumb in the Birmingham Weekly take a fun, decidedly non-scientific, and interesting look at the Birmingham mayor’s race by counting yard signs in all nine council districts.

Over breakfast, we came up with the rules. Only signs in yards counted. Placards on telephone poles and in the rights-of-way were disqualified. Only one sign per yard per candidate counted. However, if a yard had signs from more than one campaign, each candidate got a point.

The whole article is here.

Also, you may appreciate the Birmingham Weekly’s recent cover story in which five front-runners in the race were interviewed: Valerie Abbott, William Bell, Patrick Cooper, Bernard Kincaid and Carole Smitherman. Larry Langford’s campaign did not participate.

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