What I find interesting is that in the first round, Astra won with 30% and Furball was a distant second, being split pretty evenly with the other runner-ups which trailed off some. Now the vote’s much closer…
…so while I think the runoff votes are getting split this time around, Furball’s gotten the lion share. That makes me think that, generally, Astra is a popular choice for #1, but Furball was almost everybody’s #2 choice. And due to the nature of how runoff votes work, well…it’s bad news for any candidate in that position.
There’s bound to be sore losers either way, but if Furball comes from behind and beats Astra I have a hunch there won’t be more sore losers than if Astra wins. Either way, I’m glad the choices came down to these two.