Chicago Mayoral Race

Maverick74 · Feb 22, 2011

Man, this is the problem with this city. Nobody cares. Voter turnout today was abysmal. Absolutely abysmal. Ghost towns at precincts all over the city. This is a pretty big election. We only have an election like this every 25 years and no one cares.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Election-2011-116658264.html

It looks like we might get a runoff.

377OHMS · Feb 22, 2011

They know the fix is in. Its chicago ain't it?

pspr · Feb 22, 2011

The only runoff will be from Rahm pissing on all the other candidates. Obama promised Rahm he could be King... I mean Mayor of Chicago.

Maverick74 · Feb 22, 2011

Rham wins. It's over. Thanks guys. Thanks a lot. Thanks for coming out.

CaptainObvious · Feb 22, 2011

Why did they even bother with an election. The fix was in, just as I predicted.

By DON BABWIN and DEANNA BELLANDI, Associated Press Don Babwin And Deanna Bellandi, Associated Press â 1 min ago

CHICAGO â Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has been elected mayor of Chicago, to succeed the retiring Richard Daley.

With 86 percent of the precincts reporting, Emanuel was trouncing five opponents Tuesday with 55 percent of the vote to avoid an April runoff. Emanuel needed more than 50 percent of the vote to win.

denner · Feb 22, 2011

Seems to me that none of the other bought and paid for candidates were an improvement over The Rahminator. It's just the sad state of affairs in this country...

Tsing Tao · Feb 22, 2011

just leave chicago like everyone else is doing.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/02/15/census-shows-chicago-population-down-7-percent/

Chicago Population Lowest Since 1910

377OHMS · Feb 23, 2011

The most corrupt city in the world just got the most corrupt mayor in history.

The entire city of chicago must be packed with stupid people.

Tsing Tao · Feb 23, 2011

Quote from 377OHMS:

The most corrupt city in the world just got the most corrupt mayor in history.

The entire city of chicago must be packed with stupid people.

well its not packed. the population is falling rapidly.

as for the "most corrupt" mayor, did you look closely at the other candidates?

the whole race was nothing more than "prettiest pig".

Lucrum · Feb 23, 2011

Quote from Tsing Tao:

...as for the "most corrupt" mayor, did you look closely at the other candidates?

the whole race was nothing more than "prettiest pig".

Not unlike what our presidential races have become.