Election in Chicago

For John, BLUF:  Maybe Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the dark horse threat to Ms Hillary Clinton.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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City Life is over for the morning and on comes Ms Amy Goodman and Democracy Now and a discussion of tomorrow's election for Mayor of Chicago.  As we know, the current mayor is Rahm Emanuel, former US Representative and former Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. From USA Today we have this lede:

After a difficult four years at the helm of the country's third-biggest city, Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to be on the path to winning re-election.

The latest polls by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times show Emanuel is within striking distance of the 50% plus one vote that he needs in Tuesday's five-candidate primary to avoid a runoff election in April.

Emanuel, who earned a reputation as one of Washington's toughest political operators before returning to Chicago to launch his successful bid for City Hall, finds himself scratching and clawing to try to close the deal.

Emanuel had 45% of the likely vote, and Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia trailed him with 20% of the vote, according to a recent Tribune poll.  Alderman Bob Fioretti and businessman Willie Wilson each received 7% support in the poll, while community activist William "Dock" Walls garnered about 2%.  Eighteen percent of those polled said they were undecided.

President Obama, who came to office from residence in Chicago, has endorsed the sitting mayor, Rahm Emanuel.

For Lowell Residents, Chicago, like Lowell, has non-partisan elections for city office—if you believe that there are such things as "non-partisan elections".

Now I turn to Channel 6, NECN.

Regards  —  Cliff