Gavin Newsom blows (away) the competition

Congratulations to San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom on his impressive win in yesterday's mayoral election.




Well, getting 77% of the vote is impressive isn't it? Especially when you consider his competition:

The other candidates were Chicken John Rinaldi, a professional "showman";

Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, a homeless taxicab driver;

George Davis, a nudist;

Michael Powers, a sex club owner...

...and Josh Wolf, a journalist and blogger who was imprisoned this year for refusing to surrender to authorities video he shot of a violent San Francisco protest.

("Is some dude with a blog a real journalist?" Heh.)

With all of these terrific choices to run your city, San Francisco, I'm guessing y'all just flocked to the polls.

I guessed wrong:

As of 4 p.m., only 26 percent of the city's registered voters had cast votes, though that percentage was likely to rise to well above 30 percent when all the votes are tallied. Still, the turnout is remarkably low - the lowest for a mayor's race in decades.

Four more years! Four more years!