Halfway across the District diamond, things were a little more lively outside the early voting site at the Turkey Thicket Rec Center, compared to the staid, almost solemn exercise in civic duty going down at the site in Chevy Chase in far Upper Northwest.
Turkey Thicket, a nebulously defined, and far from unanimously delineated, cluster of modest, tidy homes clustered around Catholic University, sits in Ward 5. Ward 5 takes up a healthy chunk of Northeast D.C. with it’s blocks and blocks of single family abodes that are home to working and middle class African-Americans who have built a tradition of spirited, splintered ward council contests. The victor of the Democratic primary often cobbles together a plurality well under 50 percent of votes cast.
