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Rahm Emanuel/Barack Obama: Two Peas in a Pod

 
 
Reply Mon 14 Jul, 2014 11:56 am
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When a politico's first on-the-record response to a poll number is "wow," you know it's good for them. "Wow" is what Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, told the Chicago Sun-Times after being informed that she would easily lead Rahm Emanuel in a mayoral election. In an automated poll of more than 1,000 voters, Lewis led Emanuel by a 45–36 margin, cutting into every group that backed him four years ago. She trailed by only 3 points with white voters, led by 4 points with Hispanics, and led by 18 points with black voters—a margin that might increase if Lewis ran and black voters discovered that she, too, was black. And Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle (a black woman, like Lewis) led Emanuel by 24 points.*

Emanuel's weakness has been known for months—he lost the left ages ago, and has lost Chicagoans more generally over basic competence issues. In the Sun-Times, his response to the poll is an anonymous insult, "laughable."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/07/14/rahm_emanuel_trails_his_strongest_primary_challenger_by_22_points_which.html

Bloviating incompetent managers who the left used to love, but no more. No wonder these two get on so well together.

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