Turnout and SF races   By Tim Redmond At City Hall  Well, our
resident expert on political predictions, Chris Bowman, who is
that rarest of creatures (a smart Republican), stopped by with
his predictions. He estimates 42 to 44 percent turnout city
wide, which is actually better than I had expected. That's based
on a formula for predicting turnout based on absentees that he's
used for about 15 years.  Ted Gullicksen of the Tenants Union
was here also, worrying that the turnout would be higher on the
west side, since that's where all the action's been. (Reilly-Ma
and Nevin-Yee have big, well-funded GOTV operations and have run
very, very visible campaigns). High westside turnout would be
bad for the pro-tenant Prop. B and would help the Laguna Honda
fraud, Prop. D. But Bowman says not to worry about that -- he
says most people are turning out to vote for governor, and that
the voting will be heavily Democratic on both sides of town.