Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Attention in the Cemetery

It's get out the vote day in Chicago and I wonder whether my mother will be voting. Yes, she passed away ten years ago and is buried in St. Adelbert's Cemetery on the northside, but that's one of the most reliable voting blocks in the ward.

It Takes a Majority to Win

Let there be no doubt about it. This will be a classic exercise in Chicago democracy. It can be nothing else. Filling the Daley legacy and assuming the reins of the regime is a done deal, of course. The only question is whether the carpetbagger from Pennsylvania Ave. is going to sweep the 50%+1 today or he is going to be discreet and pick one of the three other contenders to be the run-off sacrificial lamb. Appearances are important. It has to look real.

I wonder if anyone applied to the United Nations to send Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton as impartial observers of the process.

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