What If?

It appears the absentee ballots have now been counted...I still finished third, but I had closed the gap between  2nd and 3rd to just 34 votes.

Council Member (Otsego) (Elect 2) 100.0% reporting
		Vote %	Votes
	Douglas B. Schroeder	23.1%	1,926
	Jason Warehime	20.5%	1,709
	Patrick Brink	20.1%	1,675
	Adam Mitlyng	17.9%	1,493
	Mitchel Faust	17.4%	1,448
	Write-In	1.0%	80

I wonder how I would have fared if 3/5  (60%) of my campaign signs had not been taken or stolen. Just last night when I was out picking up my signs I found that four more of my signs had been taken just since Sunday night.

I'm not sure who took the signs, and I am most assuredly NOT blaming any other candidate, but I do wonder why so many of my signs were targeted and taken.  

Maybe I could have made up that 34 vote difference had I not needed to keep replacing my signs.  Well, it's water under the bridge now, but I do have to wonder ....what if?