Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. (Campaign photo)

Everything pointed to a lopsided victory for Council President Mary Sheffield in the race for mayor. The last major poll before the election had her leading by 50 percentage points, and in the August primary she received 51 percent of the vote compared to Rev. Solomon Kinloch, who finished second with 17 percent.

Sheffield ended up clobbering Kinloch on Tuesday night, garnering 77 percent of the vote compared to his nearly 23 percent, which comes out to about 54 percentage points.

Detroit Free Press investigative columnist M.L. Elrick writes that Kinloch didn’t put up much of a fight:

In the end, it wasn't much of a contest.

Mary Sheffield, the Detroit City Council president who had all the money and most of the endorsements, flattened the Re

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