Gatten's comeback
Florence Gatten's resurgence from primary also-ran to general election winner was impressive but not improbable.
As Gatten knew, the turnout was so low in the primary that it was more than doable to make up ground by motivating more of her supporters to go to the polls.
Gatten also benefited from Don Vaughan's late-inning slide.
Gatten, by the way, who was not endorsed by this newspaper in the primary, obviously didn't expect a News & Record endorsement in the general election either.
She called the office two weeks ago to ask when the at-large endorsement editorial for the general election was scheduled to run.
She said she wanted to hide that day's paper from her husband.
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