Okay, okay, okay, we promise, this is our last post for today about Ed Jew (we think) -- so what happens next? Well. Newsom will now appoint a permanent replacement for Ed Jew's seat on the Board of Supes (presumably interim District 4 supervisor Carmen Chu is the leading candidate, unless Jennifer Siebel-soon-to-be-hyphenate-Newsom is living by the zoo now and wants something to do on Tuesday and Thursday nights), and that replacement will rule through......

We're covering for SFist Jon today! --Left in SF asks progressives to play nice in the Migden-Leno race. Hilariously, Chris Daly refuses, twice. --Beyond Chron gives the lowdown on David Latterman and Rich DeLeon's SPUR talk about recent city voting trends. --PartyParty is unhappy about Gavin Newsom's plans to veto the 6 month trial of car-free Saturdays in Golden Gate Park (despite reports saying that it doesn't reduce the number of park visitors). --Getty v.......

All the political junkies in town know that David Latterman and Rich DeLeon's cogent analyses of the current local political scene are statistically sound, politically astute, and so cannily call the upcoming trends that it's a little frightening how accurate they are -- but we love them the most for their gorgeous maps! The map to your right (from this analysis) is the percentage of people ranking more than one choice in the supervisorial races......

We're baaaaaack! (Did you think we'd ever left?) Well, we've moved on to relentlessly houding Gavin Newsom to show up for Question Time and we're also starting to gear up to cover the 2007 Mayoral Election -- but you all know we've still got a special place in our heart for the District 6 election that was. So what's the latest? Well, it's the moment we election geeks have all been waiting for --......

We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from David Latterman's analysis (.pdf) of the yes votes on our favorite proposition this season: Question Time Proposition I! Greens are nos, blues are yes. Look at all those haters in Districts 7 and 8 who didn't want us to ask Gavin......

Just like Ron Chun dreamed it would be -- His Highness Gavin triumphantly hands Phil Ting the coveted assessor/recorder scepter! Ting was the only one who had to go through the RCV wringer this go-around -- but since Ting got about 47% of the vote the first go-around, second-place Sandoval (with 37%) would have had to have gotten 77% of the second-place choices of the Ron Chun voters to take that ermine cape. (We hope it was faux-ermine, at least!) The RCV tallies are starting to come in now, and though it's not official, Ting wins it with 56% of the adjusted total. We did a little math on the numbers and it looks like Ting got twice as many of Chun's second-place votes as Sandoval did. The political statistician on call at SF Usual Suspects, David Latterman, has put together an interesting (but .pdf) preliminary report about the assessor/recorder election, which hypothesizes: voters still have a hard time with RCV, Ting did very well in the Castro and Noe Valley (which is attributed to King Gavin The Ambivalent's influence), Sandoval didn't do as well with the progressives as everyone thought he would (hand-wringing), and RCV seems to help moderates more than the left-wingers who got it instituted in the first place. Also: pretty maps. ...