Nutter's the one

Michael Nutter has won the Philadelphia Mayoral Primary by a pretty wide margin. I'm pretty happy to see that - he received two votes in our house. I'll be the first to admit that I'm a relative neophyte to Philly politics, and I'm not sure we'll live here long enough to really become deeply involved, but at least have a passing interest in how our new mayor will handle regentrification, crime, taxes and other issues.

It's hardly a stretch to say that Nutter will almost certainly become the next mayor of Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love has not elected a Republican mayor since 1948 - a drought of 59 years. I'm interested to see if former Republican mayoral nominee Sam Katz will enter the race - there have been rumors that he could enter as a third party candidate. If Katz does, he'd better bring his putter against Nutter - he'll need it the day after the election. (Sorry - it's tough to rhyme with Nutter - let's see how the Philly press does with it.)

I just hope that Nutter truly is the outsider he paints himself to be - this city needs a great deal of cleaning up from the eight-year disaster called the Street administration.

Election results chart via Phillynews.com