In terms of this bloc of voters it isn't so much that they are complacent, it's more that they are hesitant because they haven't seen the results that they were promised.

I don't think (Grammy voters) had any frame of reference of whether Steely Dan ever won,

Instinctively the conventional wisdom says, OK, veterans are probably a Republican voting bloc. But older voters are usually very much more split or even lean Democrat, because they more lean on the government safety net.

There could be a number of reasons why the number of voters is larger in one ward than the other - there could be more people who actually register, or there could be a discrepancy in the number of children, ... One thing that surprised me is that there have been some huge (housing) developments in the city that I figured would have charged the demographics, but that's not been the case.

For the great majority of voters, it's one team, and if Clinton's popular, Gore's popular; if Clinton's unpopular, Gore's unpopular.

Kevin and Bert won in the primary, and this tells the voters who the candidates will be who appear on the Democratic line on the ballot.