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...sure, the low voter turnout is due to the fairly uneventful race for mayor. Flynn's closest competition, City Councilor Joseph Tierney, proved to be a weak challenger, scraping up only 27 percent of the vote. The two other candidates in the preliminary election barely made a dent in the electoral column...
...some political observers Flynn's victory--in which he received a larger portion of the vote than he did in the last preliminary mayoral election, when twice as many candidates ran--indicated popular satisfaction with the incumbent and the good economic times in Boston...
Most politicians have little doubt that the victor of November's upcoming mayoral election will be Flynn. But, the fact he received so few votes troubles pollsters and political analysts. To these observers Flynn was elected by a discouragingly tiny portion of Boston's residents, and not by the vast populace he and his supporters would probably like to think placed him ahead of the other candidates...
Goldman said even those that did not vote in the preliminaries were demonstrating a form of passive support by not voting against Flynn...
...Before Flynn's initial term in office, Boston was a city riddled by a $41 million debt. The city now faces a monetary turnabout due to considerable prosperity...