Slating Is Over
If the analysis of 47 Senate seats provided by the Susan Henriques campaign is accurate, the Swamp Party has already won 4 Senate seats and Unite has already won 1, leaving 42 Senate seats up for grabs and the 3 top executive jobs.
Susan’s running for Treasurer as an Independent, and faces an uphill battle. Almost certainly, she will be forcing a run-off between Swamp and Unite in the second week of March. Otherwise, we will see the end of UF 2006 on March 1st.
The four seats SWAMP has are: the usually swing seat of Architecture, the home base of John Boyles in Fine Arts, and two small, medically related colleges (Dentistry and Health Related Professions). Unite’s guaranteed seat is the Independent-friendly NRE.
Of course, no safe seat is truly safe; you first have to gain a single vote, and then you have to hope a write-in campaign isn’t successful at stealing your seat.
But SWAMP is off to a good start, nonetheless.
Also Vet-Med, chief. 😉
Ah. I stand corrected.
So the SWAMP advantage is not 4-1, but 4-2. And 41 seats are up for grabs.
Those medical colleges are difficult to recruit for; it’s rare that both parties get a full slate from those studying at Shands.
NRE, wasn’t that your old buddy Argento’s home
46 – 6 = 40, chief. 😉
There’s also a number of seats we pretty much have tied up, but I’m not supposed to talk about it.
And, honestly, I don’t think they really have anything that’s completely certain, excepting the seats they’re the only ones slating for. This is good; this is really, really good. We’re going to wipe the floor with ’em.
Hey, look at the egg on my face. Who told me 46 seats are being contested this semester? I oughta wring their neck. 😀
Also, SWAMP’s HRP candidate is presently ineligible to run. We’ll see if that gets fixed.
And I hear Susan H might get knocked off as Treasurer candidate because she’s graduating this Spring and may or may not be back for grad school in the Summer.
That’s been taken care of.