Blue for Rahm Emanuel (who won 2,087 precincts), red for Gery Chico (410), orange for Miguel del Valle (47). Oh, and green for Carol Moseley Braun, but you can’t tell with her, since she won exactly one precinct. There were also 11 ties. (The dashed line toward the top represents Rahm’s old congressional district, IL-05, now held by Dem Mike Quigley.)
Chicago looks sort of like a drunken man’s Florida, no?
OH! There it is! (Did one last scan before hitting post.) It’s sticking off the end of the big sea of red in the middle of the city, penetrating into Rahm territory.
I remember being completely shocked when I found out that an African-American woman had been elected to the US Senate already and then was extremely dismayed when I found out she only lasted a term. This mayoral race answered every question and resolved every feeling I had about our first AA woman being defeated after only one-term.
It looks kind of like an elephant with a trunk that stretches out to the lake.
effort by Rahm Emanuel — and as was mentioned a couple of times yesterday, in a city that is so divided by race and class, it’s important to note the two areas he did best were the black southside and among lakefront liberals. Now, what would have happened if he really would have been booted from the ballot.
The fact he did so well with liberals flies in the face of some online does it not?
Chico did best in the most conservative areas in the city. The blotches of red way up in the Northwest part of the city near O’hare tend to be socially conservative, as do the far south side and southwest areas of the city. Guestimating, I would say Chico did best in Dan Lipinski’s 3rd district, the least Democratic district in Chicago
divided.. seeing as Horton won every ward with an African-American majority, and lost every other ward.
But yeah, super strong showing amongst Rahm on the lakefront, and now there’s like 14 runoffs for council seats
is whether there are enough votes to support two VRA hispanic seats next year.
Found this nice summary of all the polling done with every actual and rumored mayoral candidate included.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…
Sheriff Tom Dart led the first poll in September, probably on his local name recognition.
But then it all Emanuel leading, starting at 29% and gradually increasing his percentage until hitting 58% in the final poll.
And WTF happened with the second to last poll (NBC “Victory Research”, Feb 10-12) that gave 22.5% to Moseley Braun???
Pee-yew, what a stinker.
That’s gotta go in the polling hall-of-shame.
cmb’s one precinct; am i going blind?………..