In 2009, we began learning that it doesn’t really matter who runs the United States. The only difference between Bush and Obama is the former didn’t turn Chris Matthews into a giggling schoolboy who just began entering puberty. In 2009, we also learned that it doesn’t really matter who runs the individual states. The budgets and congresses are so dysfunctional, there is nothing a governor can do to get anything done.

So if neither of those higher offices can actually produce results, why should anyone be the least bit interested in who becomes mayor?
On the one hand, mayoral elections are pretty insignificant. City governments don’t have the power to make any truly radical changes, and in the end the mayor is just one of seven votes in the city council.

Actually, there is no other hand. That hand is completely right. Sure, Flagstaff isn’t as insignificant as Glendale, which pretty much just goes with Phoenix’s flow. But it isn’t a huge city either.

That being said, why am I so intrigued about this mayoral election? Well, besides watching Joe Haughey go no-holds-bar on the ladies in the race? It’s simply because we have three candidates with about an equal support base and at three different ends of the political spectrum (if a spectrum was a triangle), provides an election field you can’t find anywhere else. Any of the three candidates can win, which will provide a fascinating(ish) next few weeks.

COMING SOON!!!! A rundown of the three mayoral candidates. And when I say “SOON!!!!” I mean “when I get around to it.”