# Chicago Mayoral Election 2015
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [January 4, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985 "2015-01-04T22:46:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 11
### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/201 "2015-04-03T18:36:25Z")
> [@Lochdale](#):
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> Another reason not to vote for Garcia.
He’d make the best POTUS since Truman, Sanders would.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/202 "2015-04-04T04:20:11Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> He’d make the best POTUS since Truman, Sanders would.
An opinion for another thread.
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/203 "2015-04-06T02:54:37Z")
Final days and Rahm’s lead in the [polls](http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150405/downtown/new-mayoral-poll-shows-emanuel-with-double-digit-lead-on-garcia) widens.
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> On April 4, respondents were asked to choose one of the two candidates, with the option to choose “undecided.” In that vote, Emanuel’s 499 votes (51.3 percent) topped Garcia’s 321 (33 percent), and 152 voters (15.6 percent) were left undecided.
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> The following day, without the option to vote “undecided,” Emanuel’s lead jumped to 56.6 percent (474 votes), almost 13 percentage points ahead of Garcia’s 43.4, or 364 votes.
Still, as the article notes, the polls do not necessarily reflect who will bother to vote.
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> It remains to be seen how strong the Hispanic voter turnout will be, which could be advantageous to Garcia, who predicts his poll numbers are likely about 7 points lower due to low Hispanic polling. Likewise, data shows African-American support for Emanuel has increased, though low voter turnout could have an impact on numbers.
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> Each candidate may also be affected by voting in wards with aldermanic runoff elections, which are to occur sporadically throughout the city.
I’ll nevertheless place my marker on a blow-out, 58 to 42.
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/204 "2015-04-06T03:21:51Z")
Meanwhile [this](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/us/in-chicagos-reshaped-politics-unions-are-divided-over-mayoral-race.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) in the NYT -
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> … Notably, the Tribune poll found Mr. Emanuel with 47 percent support of union households and Mr. Garcia with 39 percent — although the difference lies within the poll’s margin of sampling error.
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> The split in labor has come as a shock to some of Mr. Emanuel’s sharpest critics, who view him as an anti-union mayor …
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### Author:  [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/205 "2015-04-06T11:11:24Z")
Watched the Cards/Cubs last night (thank God MLB is back!) and there were lots of Chuy and “I’m with Rahm” buttons in evidence in the crowd.
Not that it has shit-all to do with the actual issues of the election, but Chuy has a much catchier design for his buttons.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/206 "2015-04-06T15:30:58Z")
The guy who counts the votes on Tuesday is in Rahm’s pocket:
> **[The guy who counts votes Tuesday gets lobbying deals from Rahm.](https://preaprez.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/the-guy-who-counts-votes-tuesday-gets-lobbying-deals-from-rahm/)**
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> Chairman of the Chicago Board of Elections, Langdon Neal. Look. Nobody believes the Chicago Tribune polls. The last one showed Rahm with a 28 point lead. That is laughable. I ran into my friend Don…
Rahm is corrupt:
> **[The Case Against Rahm](https://www.profitandlaws.com/the-case-against-rahm/)**
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> I wish I could be with Rahm and feel Chicago is in the hands of a tough, capable leader….
Rahm won’t release emails:
> **[Copy of Rahm letter refusing to release secret emails between mayor’s office...](https://preaprez.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/copy-of-rahm-letter-refusing-to-release-secret-emails-between-mayors-office-and-billionaire-donor-michael-sacks/)**
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> Visit the post for more.
> **[Breaking. Chicago officials are heading for Rahm’s office demanding release...](https://preaprez.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/breaking-chicago-officials-are-heading-for-rahms-office-demanding-release-of-donor-emails/)**
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> From David Sirota: Chicago elected officials have just announced they are heading to Rahm Emanuel’s office today at 3pm to demand the release of more than 1,500 emails between Emanuel, his to…
ABC refuses to air anti-Rahm commercial:
[http://benswann.com/abc-refuses-air-anti-rahm-emanuel-commercial/](http://benswann.com/abc-refuses-air-anti-rahm-emanuel-commercial/)
“Mayor Garcia” sounds good to me:
> **['Mayor Garcia' sounds pretty good to me - Chicago Reader](https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/mayor-garcia-sounds-pretty-good-to-me/)**
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> You've got a big chance to take this city in a different direction, Chicago—don't mess it up.
I don’t understand how anyone can’t plainly see that Rahm has no interest in Chicago other than making money for his buddies.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/207 "2015-04-06T15:42:32Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> ABC refuses to air anti-Rahm commercial:
> [http://benswann.com/abc-refuses-air-anti-rahm-emanuel-commercial/](http://benswann.com/abc-refuses-air-anti-rahm-emanuel-commercial/)
Pro-Garcia PAC refuses to alter ad found misleading by ABC!
Guess it’s all in how you write the headlines.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/208 "2015-04-06T15:58:00Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> I don’t understand how anyone can’t plainly see that Rahm has no interest in Chicago other than making money for his buddies.
ISTM that his supporters in this thread see that plainly and have no problem with it, believing that enlightened self-interest produces public benefits, or something like that.
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/209 "2015-04-06T16:13:35Z")
Some stupid paranoid conspiracy theory blog doesn’t mean than Rahm is rigging the votes.
As we head into Election Day tomorrow. I predict Rahm wins by 15-20 points and I’m hopeful it’ll be even more. Chuy’s small but very noisy group of supporters are getting on my nerves on social media.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/210 "2015-04-06T16:25:32Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> The guy who counts the votes on Tuesday is in Rahm’s pocket:
> [The guy who counts votes Tuesday gets lobbying deals from Rahm. – Fred Klonsky](https://preaprez.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/the-guy-who-counts-votes-tuesday-gets-lobbying-deals-from-rahm/)
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> If it is close, know that the guy counting the ballots is Chicago elections board chairman Langdon Neal.
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> Langdon Neal makes a lot money from deals with Rahm.
Well, does the elections board chairman actually “count the votes”?
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/211 "2015-04-06T16:26:35Z")
> [@dalej42](#):
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> Chuy’s small but very noisy group of supporters . . .
Oh, come on. Even if Rahm really is ahead, you know very well Chuy’s group is not “small.”
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/212 "2015-04-06T16:51:34Z")
I was referring to the ones who jump all over the comments section on facebook news articles covering the race. I see the same names , with the same multi paragraph responses, often with conspiracy theories or over the top rhetoric about rising up against our oligarchic overlords and other such nonsense.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/213 "2015-04-06T16:56:10Z")
> [@dalej42](#):
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> Some stupid paranoid conspiracy theory blog doesn’t mean than Rahm is rigging the votes.
The introductory part about the guy’s friend predicting it’ll really be an eight point victory for Garcia reminded me of the “Unskew the polls!” schtick leading up to the 2012 election. With the same implication that if the election DOES go the way the polls predict, it’ll be because of fraud.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/214 "2015-04-06T17:33:26Z")
> [@dalej42](#):
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> I was referring to the ones who jump all over the comments section on facebook news articles covering the race. I see the same names , with the same multi paragraph responses, often with conspiracy theories or over the top rhetoric about rising up against our oligarchic overlords and other such nonsense.
CTs are usually nonsense, but rising up against our oligarchic overlords is not.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/215 "2015-04-06T17:34:33Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> The introductory part about the guy’s friend predicting it’ll really be an eight point victory for Garcia reminded me of the “Unskew the polls!” schtick leading up to the 2012 election. With the same implication that if the election DOES go the way the polls predict, it’ll be because of fraud.
Well, I’m sure there will be exit polls.
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### Author:  [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/216 "2015-04-06T19:08:43Z")
I don’t live in Chicago proper so I have no vote in the matter, but Garcia reminds me of Rauner in that they are both running on the same platform: “I’m not the incumbent. I can’t give too many details of what I’ll do, but trust me that I’ll do everything better when I’m in charge. Did I mention that I’m not the incumbent?”
I didn’t trust Rauner and voted against him. Friends of mine were convinced he’d be a Bloomberg-style moderate, but I was (alas!) proven correct with his Scott Walkeresque budget. :mad: As a moderate who walks the yellow line down the middle of the road like a balance beam 🙂 I don’t trust Garcia on the same platform either.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/217 "2015-04-07T14:16:58Z")
Yeah I think Garcia really shot himself in the foot by saying that he needed to look at the money and form a plan. Other than that, I wouldn’t want to compare him to Rauner. Then again Rahm reminds me of Blagojevich, they both swear a lot and they’re both crooked.
[http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/503253/emanuel-critics-push-release-1500-michael-sacks-emails](http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/503253/emanuel-critics-push-release-1500-michael-sacks-emails)
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/218 "2015-04-07T14:50:24Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> Then again Rahm reminds me of Blagojevich . . .
Except for The Hair.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/219 "2015-04-07T15:56:06Z")
[When this election is over, United Working Families will still be there.](http://www.thenation.com/article/203673/meet-rahm-emanuels-other-election-day-challenger)
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayoral-election-2015/708985/220 "2015-04-08T00:47:31Z")
56 to 44 Rahm with 53% of precincts reported.
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