Special Election for IL-5

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The election dates are set. The primary is set for Mar 3, and the general on April 7. The Gov followed the suggestions of the Cook Co Clerk and Chicago Board of Elections. April 7 is the municipal election, but it's result is not much in doubt. The letter from Emmanuel was too late to the Gov for them to use the Feb 24 suburban municipal primary date for the primary so that part of the district will have elections on consecutive Tuesdays.

That doesn't sound promising for primary candidates from the suburbs.  What percentage of the district is in Chicago proper versus the suburbs?

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The election is today.  Polls close at 7PM Central Time. 

I don't have links to results - yet. 

It's a D+18 district, so there should be no surprises here. Emanuel handily won reelection with 74% in 2008.  His worst showing was 67% when he was initially elected in 2002.

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NBC 5 Chicago has an election results page here.

They also link to the pages for the Cook County and Chicago elections results pages:
Chicago
Cook County (minus Chicago)

Illinois' State Board of Elections may or may not have results here.

ABC 7 election results link here.

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How low of a percentage can this Rosanna woman get?

The over/under should be about 17%.  A Republican ward leader was telling folks to write in Abraham Lincoln instead of voting for her.  She has no support from the Chicago Republican machine, if one even exists.

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Did everyone know she's a crazy Freeper?

Her posts on Free Republic came up in the scant media coverage of the election. 

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First results:

Precincts Reported: 257 of 578
Mike Quigley (D)   11,669 (73.2%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   3,126 (19.6%)
Matt Reichel (G)   1,139 (7.1%)

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Precincts Reported: 326 of 578
Mike Quigley (D)   15,181 (73.7%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   3,948 (19.2%)
Matt Reichel (G)   1,475 (7.2%)

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Precincts Reported: 326 of 578
Mike Quigley (D)   15,181 (73.7%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   3,948 (19.2%)
Matt Reichel (G)   1,475 (7.2%)

I believe that's from the Chicago portion of the district.

I can't tell.  It's from ABC 7's webpage.  Neither the Chicago or Cook County sans Chicago elections pages have results yet.

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A little more:

Precincts Reported: 341 of 578
Mike Quigley (D)   15,977 (73.5%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   4,184  (19.3%)
Matt Reichel (G)   1,571  (7.2%)

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Could be Chicago-only.  More in:

Precincts Reported: 384 of 578 (66.4%)
Mike Quigley (D)   19,070 (70.7%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   6,027   (22.4%)
Matt Reichel (G)   1,858   (6.9%)

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That probably included some suburban votes.  Suburb-only Cook tally:

Precincts Counted: 37 of 92 (40.22%)
Candidates   Votes   %
Mike Quigley (DEM)   2,869   58.54%
Matt Reichel (GRN)   257   5.24%
Rosanna Pulido (REP)   1,775   36.22%

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Precincts Reported: 463 of 578 (80.1%)
X Mike Quigley (D)   24,369 (69.4%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   8,435   (24.0%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,332   (6.6%)

Come on Rosanna stay over 20%, that will make it a mandate.

Mandate for what?  Not totally blowing a special election with especially low turnout?

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Precincts Reported: 463 of 578 (80.1%)
X Mike Quigley (D)   24,369 (69.4%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   8,435   (24.0%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,332   (6.6%)

Come on Rosanna stay over 20%, that will make it a mandate.

Mandate for what?  Not totally blowing a special election with especially low turnout?

Clearly this is a referendum against Obama.

Clearly this is a special election with extremely low turnout in a heavily Democrat-leaning district that has little meaning outside IL-5.

Anyway, 84.1% in:
Precincts Reported: 486 of 578
X Mike Quigley (D)   25,563 (69.3%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   8,893   (24.1%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,435   (6.6%)

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With almost 94% in:
Precincts Reported: 543 of 578 (93.9%)
X Mike Quigley (D)   28,343 (69.7%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   9,653   (23.7%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,691   (6.6%)

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I knew I recognized Pulido's name from somewhere previously. Sure enough:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1532

A freeper and enough of an anti-immigrant extremist to be profiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Nice.

She's on the hit list of the Southern Policy Law Center.   So what?  Being against illegal immigration is not against the law - yet.  Though if extremist left-wing organizations like the SPLC ever got their way, it would be.