With 21 election day precincts reporting, Lee Leffingwell (47.44%)leads by almost half the number of votes going to mayoral opponent Brewster McCracken (27.03%. And Carole Strayhorn’s (21.4%) campaign appears to be going the way of her third-place finish in the 2006 governor’s race.

This article appears in May 8 • 2009.

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Amy Smith has been writing about Austin policy and politics for over 20 years. She joined The Austin Chronicle in 1996.