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Another worry for the CCA is the primary. CCA partisans may be less likely to turn out for these seemingly insignificant preliminary local elections than supporters of the independents. If that turned out to be true, some of the CCA candidates might have a hard time making it on the ballot in November...
...CCA seems to be, the independents on the Council are not without problems. Most of them don't relish the prospect of plurality. Their comfortable mathematical majorities, which look so convincing on paper, fail to reflect their chief problem: lack of unity. Each independent's quest for votes is an individual matter; he is competing against other independents more than he is working with them. PR, favoring minority votes as it does, encourages this division. But the independents are not only split by the system, but also by temperament, background, and political philosophy...
...situation is this: the CCA possesses the financial and political organization (and unity) necessary for city-wide campaigns, but lacks a broad base of popular support. The independents apparently possess the broad base of support, but lack the unified organization. If the independents can unify rapidly, the CCA will get clobbered. If they can't, a whole range of unpredictable possibilities appear...
...CCA May Benefit
Some other observers even suggest that the CCA would benefit from the change CCA candidates would no longer have to compete against each other for "number one votes" in the Brattle Street wards. Given added time to campaign in other parts of the City, the CCA's more unified front and greater financial backing could make for substantial gains...