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Chicago Mayor Election Results by Precinct

by: DavidNYC

Wed Feb 23, 2011 at 4:17 PM EST


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?
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Where is this supposed green precinct?
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.

Moseley-Braun was part of the class of 1992
which saw the number of women in the Senate triple. That's less impressive than it sounds, since it went from two to six.  There are two words that explain this: "Anita Hill".  The scenes of her testimony being impugned by an all male Senate Judiciary Committee woke up many voters, especially woman voters, to the need for change.

28, Unenrolled, MA-08
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Here's a picture of 5 of them.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Boxer is in the top-right corner.  She looked different back then!

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!

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The full article
about the "Year of the Woman" is located here, if anyone is interested in a primer.

I didn't recognize Murray or (less forgivably) Feinstein. Although I was working from the premise that the picture was of the newly elected female senators, and if Boxer was there, Feinstein couldn't possibly be there. That was false on two counts: Mikulski was already in office and Boxer and Feinstein were elected in the same year -- Feinstein ran in a special and Boxer in a regular election.

30, male, MI-11 (previously VA-08). Evangelical, postconservative, green.

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What is that dotted line at the top
It looks kind of like an elephant with a trunk that stretches out to the lake.  

Male, VA-08
Rahm's old congressional district (IL-5)


28, Unenrolled, MA-08
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This was really a remarkable
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.
A Rahm-less race would be very interesting
I suppose CMB would have consolidated the black vote, Chico and Del Valle would have split the Hispanic vote, and more whites would have voted for Chico or Del Valle then CMB. If black voters stayed strongly behind CMB, she might have made the runoff, but if many defected to Chico or Del Valle after the "strung out on crack" thing then those two could have made it into a runoff against each other. In the end I think Chico would have been favored.

Male, VA-08
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No Rahm
And stronger candidates would likely have got in. But post-challenge without a successful appeal you may be right.
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Agreed
I suspect Chico still would've won the plurality, but it would've been at least a 2 to 1 blowout over Moseley Braun. Reminiscent, I guess, of De Blasio vs. Green in the recent NYC Public Advocate race. Blacks supported Green and basically everyone else De Blasio.

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NO WAY
you simply can't say that CMB would have done anything that you suggest(she was REJECTED by her folks);'nuf said
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Ease up
On the ALL CAPS, buddy.
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More like a bloated FL
The fact he did so well with liberals flies in the face of some online does it not?
Some liberals like Rahm
And some don't! Wow!
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I never would have guessed!
But you know very well what I mean.
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Actually
I don't really take your point. I think there was a lot of progressive unhappiness with the directions Rahm was perceived to be pushing the White House in. I think that has nothing to do with Rahm's political appeal to liberals in Chicago - nor did I see anyone suggest it would, but then again, I didn't read every word written about the Chicago mayor's race.
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rahm's JOB was to re-elect the PREZ
the pres will win in a landslide(his new job is HARDER)
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Fair enough
But if somebody frequented certain places I think they would be forgiven for assuming no liberal or progressive could ever support him for anything.
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Not if they read SSP!
This site was about as pro-Rahm as it was possible to get during the 2006 cycle.
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Absolutely

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Beyond the WH CoS thing
Rahm was the one pushing for a D "support the Iraq war" election strategy. I suspect that's the root cause for liberal bitterness towards him.

Nevertheless, if I remember right, Rahm's voting record is more progressive than his image suggests.

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Yeah
Much of it is because of his public spat with Howard Dean.
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Oh I do
although the sentiment by many was first squashed by who his replacement ended up being, and second because it never grew any legs.  It not growing legs was probably for another two reasons; enough people find him perfectly acceptable ideology wise and two, all of his opponents sucked.
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RAHM WAS A LIBERAL
and still is(his new job as a "doer" will make him more conservative since the budget 'thingy' always makes it so)
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No need for all caps.

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whatever
..................gimme a friggin' break............
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Jeff is a contributing editor of the site
I suggest you do as he asks.
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Yeah
You need to make a quick attitude adjustment, or else you need to find a new place to hang out.
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It appears
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

19, gay male, IL-7, MN 4 (college), Dem
Ethnic Voters
Chico did best in the Mexican areas of the city, the South-West side and the East Side, but yes, it seems like he did to fairly well in some conservative White areas, although Rahm did well in Bridgeport, part of Lipinski's district and home of the Daleys. Chico more or lest swept Clearing and Hegewisch, which are traditionally working-class white areas, as well as the more conservative North-West side. Del Valle did well in Humboldt Park, the more Puerto Rican section of the city. And I believe CMB's lone precint is in Washington Park... or so it appears.

16, Male, MI-01
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My image of Bridgeport is rich Asian people
Chico did pretty well in white ethnic areas, I think. Looks like he crushed in both Garfield Ridge (near Midway) and Portage Park (near O'Hare).

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
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It's like a divided line.
Very noticeable dived line. Although now that I think about it there were a lot more Asian owned businesses. So maybe not quite the divided line I remember.

19, Self Appointed Chair of the SSP Gay Caucus (I claimed it first :p), male, Dem, IN-09 (College IN-09) (Raised IL-03, IL-09)
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i'm guessing Mendoza/Horton precinct map would be a bit more
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

The interesting question for me
is whether there are enough votes to support two VRA hispanic seats next year.
polling for Chicago mayor
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.

The NBC poll was commissioned by the Braun camp
It oversampled the black vote. Still, that doesn't necessarily explain why this poll showed Braun LEADING among African-Americans.  

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WAA did a pretty decent job again

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I STILL CAN'T SEE
cmb's one precinct; am i going blind?...........
Check out the big red blob in the middle...her precinct is a dark green to the right


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thank you
her money was well spent...................
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