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While this year’s municipal general election finally wraps up tomorrow when the polls close at 8 pm, there is still no clear sense of how various of the races will pan out when the ballots are counted.

At perhaps best, what with the disruption caused by recent adverse news tied to the mayor, the South Shore broadsheet posed the likelihood that the results could be seen as a facto referendum on Quincy’s peerless mayor even though he is not on the ballot and thus such will delay his likely official judgement day by local voters until 2027 if he decides to run for reelection for another term and so perhaps score a nice pay pop as well as more importantly a sweeter monthly kiss in the mail after he finally retires.

What, you don’t like me as much as you once did?
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Speaking of peerless, such was the timing as well as comprehensiveness of a much less than favorable feature by WBUR about Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch and his Medusa Touch as well as featuring his typically shooting himself in the foot whenever he violates The First Rule of Holes when without a tight script and even lighter control of the situation.

In any event, the upheaval from the recent run of bad press hitting the fan right before the election day today has muddied the water and thus Quincy Quarry News has to go a different way to perhaps have something to pose as to how things might break when votes are counted.

The Quarry’s Plan B?

Will the Ward 6 incumbent crap out?
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A three prong less than scientific but still an effective sampling approach when both story filing deadlines are fast approaching and polling budgets lean.

First up, word on the street in general is indicting a late surge of challenger-friendly chatter and such a swing is indicative of momentum even if perhaps not enough to effect regime change.

Next, a bellwether pool of denizens along the waterfront with a venue that includes a watering hole featuring adult libations continues to be steady as it goes this election season: “if you’re in, you’re out.”

Feel the love …
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And for the third leg of this polling trifecta, Nekkers are not finding favor with their decade-long incumbent ward heeler, especially among younger and more recent residents in the Neck.

Granted, the Quarry’s tripart approach is what it is, what is clear is that recent adverse news about the actions, misactions, and at times arrogance of Mayor Koch look to be making things tougher to much tougher for his obsequious minions to score wins at polls than was likely expected as recently as a month or so ago.

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