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...other ways, though, Wylie is similar to fellow council liberals. He has voted with them on rent control and condominium conversion, although he argued last year that neighborhoods should have more say in planning their future...
...around Cambridge, City Council candidates are worried. They spend all day courting rumors, but still have no idea how they're doing. "I could get thousands of votes--I could get almost none," one candidate mourned last week. "We're all in the eye of the storm," council incumbent Mary Ellen Preusser added last week. Like the racetrack, everyone else is in the dark too. "More people have given me more theories in the last week than I can remember," one city observer said Friday. "And none of them were right," he added...
...reason Cantabrigians care so much about municipal elections is that the stakes are sky-high. The entire nine-member council turns over every two years; the potential for change in the city is enormous. And even if only a single seat changes hands in Tuesday's balloting, the effects on city policy are potentially massive...
Retaining that edge is the traditional job of the CCA, which currently controls four seats. Their margin on the crucial council votes has come only at the behest of independent Alfred E. Vellucci. And this year, as every year, the CCA is battling to gain a fifth seat. "We could end up with five, or we could go down to three," one CCA candidate said with a shudder last week...
...down the condo boom this year, and the prospect of renewed conversions may scare many tenants to the polls. Finally, the usually ephemeral student vote could help liberal candidacies this fall. CCA candidate David Sullivan, who has campaigned dorm-to-dorm this year in his second bid for a council seat, points to the increased number of Harvard registrants as reason to believe students might finally help choose city leaders. If all of the 1500 Harvard students registered to vote turn out (unlikely is too weak a word for this prospect), they would be able to singlehandedly elect one candidate...