Last week, Mayor Booker prevailed against a crowded field of candidates in the 2024 Lawton mayoral election. Winning more than twice the number of votes as his closest rival, Mayor Booker is now set to begin his third term. Having proven himself an enduring politician in the City of Lawton after fighting off a recall attempt in the height of the pandemic, Mayor Booker focused his last campaign on defending his record against criticism of the Westwin project and advocating for Lawton’s new capital investment project.
However, why Mayor Booker succeeded in his most recent campaign can’t be boiled down to simple issue polling. As with many political events, this election was less about the players and more about the game. Politics is not a soap opera drama, but a system, structured around rules that preference certain outcomes. In this case, Ma…