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  Handicapping the [Colorado Springs] mayoral race
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Last EditedRP  Jan 27, 2015 06:04pm
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AuthorJohn Hazlehurst
News DateThursday, January 22, 2015 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionWe have four serious candidates for Colorado Springs' mayor: Amy Lathen, Mary Lou Makepeace, Joel Miller and John Suthers. Who will prevail, bringing inventive and original strategies for solving our city's manifold problems, only to see a sullen City Council majority deride, defang, ignore and destroy them all? Who will don the ermine mantle and wear the golden crown bequeathed to the city by Gen. William Palmer?

That depends on the campaigns. There appear to be paths to victory for each of the four, but they'd better get themselves in gear right now! Time's a-wasting — ballots go out in mid-March, and the election's April 7, just 2½ months away.

So what are the odds? I'm not making book, but here's the first iteration:

Suthers: Makes runoff 2-1, wins runoff 1-2;

Makepeace: Makes runoff 1-2, wins runoff 3-1;

Lathen: Makes runoff 5-2, wins runoff 2-1;

Miller: Makes runoff 3-1, wins runoff 10-1.
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