Governing.com’s 13th Floor reports on tomorrow’s election of a new mayor for Dallas:

Dallas voters will decide on a new mayor tomorrow, with the choices being businessman Tom Leppert, who the local media has deemed “a pleasant, decent, dedicated, hardworking, perfectly OK guy” and city councilman Ed Oakley, who the local media has deemed “a pleasant, decent, dedicated, hardworking, perfectly OK guy.” No wonder the race is a dead heat.

Even if it isn’t exciting the folks in Dallas, there are a couple of dynamics that make this election interesting from a national perspective. One is that Oakley would be “the nation’s first openly gay mayor of one of the largest U.S. cities.” That awkward phrase is a way of saying that Providence, Rhode Island doesn’t count.