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Don't miss tonight's mayoral debate between Thomas Menino and Michael Flaherty. It starts at 7 p.m. on WCVB-TV (Channel 5), and it will be the first debate between the two candidates since the primary. The next debate will take place on October 19.

Unless you've been living under a rock, or in Somerville, you've probably heard about the new Flaherty-Yoon alliance. A "marriage," according to the Globe's Scott Lehigh, which weirdly echos something we overheard at Fenway Park yesterday. "You know, Flaherty-Yoon; it's like gay marriage, but for politics." After the jump: Tell us how the "Floon" ticket changes things.

Update: It pains us to write this, because the whole event seemed so hilarious—another reason to love our Jakes—but, apparently, the fire drill was not the doing of the Boston Fire Department. Our usually more level-headed friends at Universal Hub, where we got the story in the first place, have issued a retraction, and we'll do the same. Apparently, the fire drill was scheduled by the building management, not the BFD. So, sorry, Jakes!

The Globe reports that fewer than 8 percent of registered voters made it to the polls by noon today. Joyce Linehan tweets, "In Boston 17, 11 (Codman Hill area) only 34 people have voted as of now." So, where are you, Boston?

On our way from our polling place to the T this morning, we passed a school bus full of kids who were screaming, "Vote for Menino! Vote for Menino today at the Curley School." Look out for the big yellow machine.

Let's get a completely unscientific idea of who will win Boston's mayoral primary with an internet poll. As you know by now, four candidates are in the running, and only two will survive tomorrow's primary. We've fashioned two questions for you, which you can answer after the jump.

The Globe announced its endorsements for mayor today, and they really didn't come as a shock. Menino and Flaherty. Of Menino, the Globe writes:

The Globe tries to make up for systematically ignoring his campaign by running a lengthy profile of novelty candidate for mayor Kevin McCrea that describes how McCrea went from being "the Motorcycle Guy" who lost a city council race in 2005 to the suit-wearing crusader-gadfly who, he says, has a serious chance at winning the mayor's seat. It's a pretty puffy article that teaches you, among other things, that McCrea claims to have been a competitive ice sculptor (?) and a chess prodigy. [Globe]

As we predicted, we didn't make it home in time to watch tonight's Boston mayoral debate on Channel 25, which was helpfully scheduled for rush hour. Luckily for us, Adam Gaffin was available to liveblog it. The highlights? Michael Flaherty doesn't know how much it costs to ride the T. Yoon explained why there are four candidates in the race. The moderator asked Menino if he thought he spoke like an imbecile. McCrea yelled a lot. [Universal Hub]

Fox Channel 25 will be broadcasting a Boston mayoral debate this afternoon beginning at 5 p.m., when many still-employed Bostonians will be at work or commuting home from it. We won't be live blogging this one because they don't have televisions on the T, so you're on your own. We guess that we'll read about the debate on some Web site or another after we get home, when Fox will be showing Malcolm in the Middle and Simpsons re-runs.

"It comes down to the strong mayor thing," Sam Yoon told a tableful of bloggers today at Flash's, a Back Bay bar. Yoon doesn't just want to be the next mayor of Boston. He wants to completely remake the job.

The Globe covers last night's "candidates forum," an untelevised debate between the four mayoral candidates held at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury. Tempers flared as the candidates tore into Menino over issues including the city's minority hiring record, housing spending, and the Boston school system. [Globe]

Blogger and Twitter user Aaron Cohen quizzed Boston's mayoral candidates about one of the great unknowns in this year's campaign: their respective tastes in fine dining. The results sound as message-focussed as anything in the campaign. Flaherty likes Eastie Italian joint Rino's because of "the chicken parm and warm neighborhood family feel
." Menino hedges his bets: "I like any restaurant in Boston that serves good food." Yoon likes unpretentious fancy food like what you'll find at Aquitaine or Petit Robert—he also gives a shout-out to "farmers markets, bodegas with produce, and roof gardens." [WhereToEat.in]