Chicago Megathread: With CTU on strike, Lightfoot lays out her budget

[Mr. Illini]

WGN says Daley wasn't in top 3 among black voters and didn't lead Hispanic or white voters. That's the ball game.

[Mr. Illini]

Race called for LaSpata over Moreno. Huge shocker.

Theme of the night: most wards are moving away from the machine, while a few strongholds are actually more so gravitating toward it

[MAINEiac4434]

WGN says Daley wasn't in top 3 among black voters and didn't lead Hispanic or white voters. That's the ball game.

Yeah WGN said Lightfoot and Daley were running even with white voters, which is shocking.

[Mr. Illini]

WGN says Daley wasn't in top 3 among black voters and didn't lead Hispanic or white voters. That's the ball game.

Yeah WGN said Lightfoot and Daley were running even with white voters, which is shocking.

Not to me. White progressives don't like Daley. They really, really like Lightfoot.

I am one

[Donerail]

WGN says Daley wasn't in top 3 among black voters and didn't lead Hispanic or white voters. That's the ball game.

Yeah WGN said Lightfoot and Daley were running even with white voters, which is shocking.

Exactly what Change Research said!

[Mr. Illini]

Preckwinkle speaking now and already hitting Lightfoot hard. This is why she is so good at what she does.

[Mr. Illini]

And hitting Rahm hard! Getting her revenge, I suppose. They always hated one another.

[Grassroots]

Wanted Wilson, ugh. Can't always get what we want, can we.

[Mr. Illini]

City just now releasing the ward results. Lightfoot dominated the north side. Preckwinkle won the nearer south side but Wilson actually won the far south side. Mendoza won most Hispanic areas (telling me low turnout). Daley won the far NW side and downtown.

[Mr. Illini]

Tribune has the map: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/elections/ct-met-viz-chicago-mayor-election-results-htmlstory.html

[Donerail]

Wanted Wilson, ugh. Can't always get what we want, can we.

Me too bud, me too.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

[BundouYMB]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

The top candidates were too effective in nuking each other. Lightfoot never got attacked and had broad appeal to many different demographics.

Unfortunately, Mendoza's campaign was not good at all. Her campaign was light on substance and she focused on attacking Preckwinkle and only switched strategies a week or so before the election, when her campaign was obviously in free fall.

[Sestak]

Just got back and... HOLY F[inks] LIGHTFOOT WINNING A PLURALITY WITH PRECKWINKLE IN 2ND? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS.

[Donerail]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

why would you think this

[Sestak]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

why would you think this

This is Blairite you’re talking to.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

why would you think this

She's important, had backing, and a lot of media?

[Sestak]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

why would you think this

She's important,

That’s subjective.

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So did...most of the other major candidates?

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Granted, I haven’t been paying too close attention to this race, but was it really that much more than any of the other candidates?

[Donerail]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

why would you think this

She's important, had backing, and a lot of media?

evidently not.

[Continential]

Yes! No more Daley!

[Continential]

I had this creepy dream of Daley and Meldoza going to the runoff

[Mr. Illini]

WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

The top candidates were too effective in nuking each other. Lightfoot never got attacked and had broad appeal to many different demographics.

Unfortunately, Mendoza's campaign was not good at all. Her campaign was light on substance and she focused on attacking Preckwinkle and only switched strategies a week or so before the election, when her campaign was obviously in free fall.

It had more to do with the Burke scandal playing out in the middle of the cycle, imo. The Sun Times endorsement gave her legitimacy, and then she entered the airwaves with a great ad essentially saying "all the candidates leading the polls are friends with Ed Burke, but I am not." North side reformists jumped all over it.

[muon2]

As Mr. Illini has said earlier the neighborhoods split tremendously in this election. Here's the Tribune map of winners by ward.



Lightfoot carried the progressives on the northern Lakefront, and she was second to Daley in the wealthy Loop, Gold Coast and white ethnic wards. Lightfoot was also second to Preckwinkle along the South Shore and Hyde Park.

Preckwinkle carried the wards of her traditional base in the Near South, South Shore and Hyde Park, and she was second to Wilson throughout the black wards. Preckwinkle also took second to Lightfoot on the Lakefront.

The Latinx wards were split by Mendoza and Chico with Daley in third. Joyce carried the machine wards on the Southwest Side. Neither Lightfoot nor Preckwinkle performed particularly well here. These wards will probably be critical in determining the next mayor in the runoff.

An additional thought: Joyce won the wards that I would have expected to go for Daley. My guess is that without Joyce in the race, Daley would have picked up a good chunk of those votes, and probably would have made the runoff. Then again, those Joyce wards are loaded with police, firefighters and other city workers. They may have felt Daley would be too beholden to business and not enough to their interests, and needed to park their votes somewhere - that happened to be Joyce.

[Donerail]

An additional thought: Joyce won the wards that I would have expected to go for Daley. My guess is that without Joyce in the race, Daley would have picked up a good chunk of those votes, and probably would have made the runoff. Then again, those Joyce wards are loaded with police, firefighters and other city workers. They may have felt Daley would be too beholden to business and not enough to their interests, and needed to park their votes somewhere - that happened to be Joyce.

the quip I saw was "Joyce's platform was 'hands off pensions' and Daley's platform was 'I am going to put my hands on your pensions'"

[LoneStarDem]

Who is the early favorite to win the Runoff in less than 2 months ?