Chicago mayoral runoff election today (7 April 2015)

[Flake]

https://twitter.com/Matt_Dem/status/585720893395066881?s=09

Precinct level result of Chicago's election

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

There's a nice interactive map showing the vote by ward. The Latino areas stand out pretty clearly for Chuy. Rahm racked up huge margins in the wealthy wards from the Loop north along the lakefront (ward 42: 84.6%, ward 43: 83.8%, ward 44: 74.7%, ward 2: 77.4%) and comfortably carried the black wards.

I hate how polarized Chicago is by race and class. The lowest number I found was 51.4% from the 18th and 16th (both Rahm), 51.9% from the 49th (Garcia), and 52% in the 24th (Rahm). Everything else is 60%+, with only a few falling between 54% and 58%.

[Maxwell]

A race/class war is coming to Chicago.

[Mr. Illini]

A race/class war is coming to Chicago.

Lol these are divisions that have existed for many decades. This is nothing new.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I never thought I'd be happy about Rahm Emanuel winning an election, but here it is.

[Hydera]

His attempt to crack the Daley coalition, that included blacks was futile. Blacks voted for Emanuel anyways. That's why the Obama endorsement was so critical in this campaign. That he got Durbin to do robo calls on his behalf.

Preckwrinkle was the only alternative, not Garcia, and lessoned was learned.

Rahm won by bringing the giuliani/bloomberg coalition to Chicago. Get a 95% superiority of the small republican base in the city + Moderate democrats + Majority of Independents. However this would put him short of a majority until it was the 60% of black voters that voted for rahm that put him on top.

[smoltchanov]

His attempt to crack the Daley coalition, that included blacks was futile. Blacks voted for Emanuel anyways. That's why the Obama endorsement was so critical in this campaign. That he got Durbin to do robo calls on his behalf.

Preckwrinkle was the only alternative, not Garcia, and lessoned was learned.

Rahm won by bringing the giuliani/bloomberg coalition to Chicago. Get a 95% superiority of the small republican base in the city + Moderate democrats + Majority of Independents. However this would put him short of a majority until it was the 60% of black voters that voted for rahm that put him on top.

And quite naturally: Rahm is not so different from, say, Bloomberg, politically... So - they have similar bases..

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Violence is a serious problem in Chicago, and the voters chose Emanuel as the best to handle it, and it became central in him sealing the deal with the last debate, minus Ponce, embarrassing question to Garcia.

And the voters want to keep it that way.