The city council races here are supposed to be non-partisan and take in the whole city (which makes sense to me), but of course the political parties let it be known who they support.

Anyway, in the last election (November) a fairly conservative councilman was upset by a fairly liberal (for Idaho) minister. Eight votes to tie, nine to win. That's nine votes, not ninety. Both the winner and the loser are good people and seem to care for the community as a whole -- the loser got himself in bad with the business community!!

And the loser said, "No, I'm not going to ask for a recount. Recounts have torn this country apart and I'm not going to waste city money to do that. It's time for healing." And he shook hands with his challenger and they went off together to have a beer and talk about the city's problems.