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It is called racism, it is alive and well in Chicago. Obama has been packaged well by Daley and Axelrod. Some day you will figure this out.

It is funny that Blacks gave 100% of their vote to a man who does not identify with them at all. Valerie Jarret and Michelle Obama where both in the Daley Department of Planning when they were selling out neighborhoods with gentrification. Daley has done ethnic cleansing. Barack Obama was silent on Jon Burge and torture. The Blacks will get nothing from Obama. Look at his first picks. Valerie Jarret ran the CTA, now she can ruin DC.

This was no mistake on Emanuel's part. Rahm Emanuel has a long history of militarist ideology behind him. His father was a member of the ultra-right-wing terrorist organization Etzel that killed British civilians as part of their anti-British struggle in Palestine in the 1940s. Emanuel, himself a citizen of Israel as well as the United States, has been one of several Congressional leaders enforcing the "Israel Lobby" concensus on the Democrats, in the process shutting out the peace voices that believe Israel's security would be better served by the U.S. putting pressure on Israel to end the Occupation, move the Wall to inside the pre-67 boundaries, and remove the settlers from the West Bank or tell them to live there as Palestinian citizens.

Does anyone know where to look online for the breakdown of voting results per ward & precinct?

he's half-white ... raised by whites ... went to the most privileged & aristocratic schools .... south and west-siders ... he's not one of you.

if the first three comments weren't so pathetic, they would be funny. obviously, ben and zp are not part of and are not familiar with the african-american community in chicago, especially the southside, which is where the wards listed are located. the church he used to attend, trinity ucc, is smack in the middle of those wards. learn of what you speak before opening your mouth please. and yitzak, what article were you reading?

The Chicago breakdown by ward and precinct can be found on the Chicago Board of Elections site. I ran the numbers earlier for an article for the Hyde Park Herald and Obama garnered 97.07 percent of the vote in the 3rd, 4th and 5th Wards: his "neighbors." There's another way to think about this besides by ethnicity in Chicago. The people who have been Obama's constituents longest and in some ways know his record best continued to overwhelmingly support him. In other words, to the people who he's a very real person who trick-or-treats with his kids, goes to school meetings and plays basketball at the local gym, not a vessel to be filled with one's personal definition of "hope," he was by far the best choice in the presidential election.

http://www.chicagoelections.com/wdlevel3.asp?elec_code=40 For poll results by ward.

Obama was at the right place at the right time. Daley bought his presidency. The economy was Obama's other savior, not Christ nor Satan.

Ben, stick to beating on the TIF dead horse because election analysis is "beyond your pay grade".

Change? Rahm Emanual? Bill Daley? I hate to say I told you so, but.....

And the person they dictate to take the 5th congressional seat of Emanuel and the Senate seat will be in step with the machine.

Lou, You are correct, it's a corporation, Chicago politics. A job opens, and someone in the corporation is in line to get promoted, provided they do what the stockholders ceo says! That CEO is Mayor Daley and the stockholders are Pat Ryan, Jerry Joyce, Ed Bedore, Tim Degnan, John+ Bill Daley, and Dick Mell.

Hey Kate what are you doing,edit some of this garbage including the long paste job

1. Congressman Emmanuel did not volunteer or serve in the US Army but he did volunteer in Gulf War I not for the US but for the Israeli Defense Fund (IDF) (claiming only civilian volunteer) 2. Rahm Emmanuel's father was a member of Eretz a terrorist organization that killed British civilians. 3. Hope, change, being civil--is not swearing and yelling and threatening people, and stabbing knives into voodoo dolls and threatening and playing cynical politics and lying to the media. AIPAC said they win no matter what and one of their heads had to resign. Rahm Emmanuel is arrogant and mean spirited and overly partisan. Rahm Emmanuel twisted peoples arms to vote for the Senssenbrenner Immigration bill in a cynical approach to supposedly win seats and more activity in Iran, attacking the President of Iraq, and a military neocon approach. Rahm Emmanuel was elected becaus of the Machine, Richard Daley, Don Tomczak, and the patronage and deals in that ward including HDO. Gregg Goldsner was Rahm Emmanuels campaign manager who was an associate of Al Sanchez (now indicted) and Victor Reyes--people with drug dealers, murderers, hired trucks, and hiring being fixes. Rahm Emmanuel is not good, he is bad and immoral, and not the politics of change and hope. Rahm Emmanuel is completely Machivellean and his only real ideology is power and maybe Zionism.

Ben(dover): Instead of inferring that black who voted for Obama are racist, how about considering that blacks are overwhelmingly Democratic, the most loyal part of the Dem coalition and they voted for their nominee. The racism on election day was exhibited in so-called Democratic strongholds of Wards 33, 36, 38, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 who have very "powerful" Committeemen but sat on their hands for Obama.

"KATE FAN November 8th - 4:53 a.m. Hey Kate what are you doing,edit some of this garbage including the long paste job" What's the matter, moron, too many words for your feeble mind to attempt to comprehend?

This Patrick McDonough is killing the board. If he hates Coconate, let him go to Coconates Blog. I'm going to another blog if you continue to let this sick man post subject matter that has nothing to do with blog!

Hey dog you forgot the 19th. 34% went for Mccain. Also there are few if any Republicans are in the 19th,so why did 9500 vote for mccain also look at the 10th

Hey Fan you are correct Kate should do a better job of moderation.Stop the serial paste up jerk from crowing this site or teach him to write using concise sentences or with Economy.

Let's see how education improves under Barack Obama or private sector job growth, or crime reduction---if his career as State and US Senator is anything--Barack Obama will do nothing.

November 4, 2008... Obama, Emmanuel, Alvarez, etc. A day of great triumph for the Jedi

Yes, the Jedi Dark Vader and the Sith Lord. Obama, Emmanuel, Alvarez are the dark side.

One candidate for US Senate that has been not been mentioned here is Commissioner Frank Avila of the MWRD. He is a top vote getter. The Senior Latino elected official. More popular than Luis Gutierrez or relatively unknown Gery Chico. For a Congressman to replace Rahm Emmanuel (who had great constituent service) is an underdog and darkhorse is JOHN JOYE who is a MARINE, FIREFIGHTER, Vietnam Veteran, and a son in Afghanistan. He is a populist ordinary citizen who could win this race. He is getting a lot of calls and a lot of smaller community groups are wanting him to be appointed and run for Congress.

Johnny Joyce could win. He would be Mr. Smith goes to Washington. I am tired of phony politicians.

Devine (November 8th - 9:16PM) is a goof.

Emmanuel is part of the dark side. But I do like Alvarez and of course Obama. We need to give Obama a chance but Emmanuel is a bad choice.

Kate, instead of editing my concise posts, you should do something about all the long assed cut and paste jobs.

Kate, I give you credit. You must leave your job at home on the weekends!

Old man Avila gets votes because of his name only not because he is smart or popular. Fact is he is a another do nothing idiot. His claim to fame is he leaked out information to discredit others in his qwest to be prez of MWRD. Fact is he harmed innocent hard working people. Gutierrez is popluar in hiz own mind only. He is against America. He is a socialist. What is the point? Avila Jr is just a plain asshole. Only Coconut likes him. I would him to if he did my legal work for free then again he is not the hotshot lawyer he thinks he is so no thanks. Remember he represented the gangbanger Peterson and made a deal with Wallace Bradley as a urban translator. There is some kind of non payment thing in court between lawyers. oth Avilas are losers.

Big Mortgage Big Idiot, what are you referring to? John Fritchey has done absolutely nothing wrong. People need to stop smearing him for things he has not done. He has worked hard to get where he is and will win the 5th Congressional seat easily if he wishes. there is no one in that group with the experience John has amassed. He has all the legislative experience needed for the job and he has proven to be well rounded in every area. No one has the experience he does. Can you name any one on the list of possible candidates with legislative experience, including international experience that would be better? NO. He is a reformer and would be a shoe in for Rahm Emanuel.

Whats this obsession with coconate?

Kate, Please eliminate Patrick McDonough from this board. McDonough was Talk about loser, and No Avila 4 Congress. McDonough is obscene and insane. Coconate has many obsecenities too. His site is becoming a porno site. Stop both these people from ruining discussions.

Commissioner Avila would make a great US Senator. I know Johnny Joyce and he would be the best Congressman possible. These other professional politicans just don't get it.

What a joke. Avila would make a great US Senator? Whats his claim to fame? Because hes hispanic? Because hes a idiot on a worthless board. Give me a break. Isnt it time to elect or retain some decent and qualified people. Avila is a joke.

Avila has more qualifications to run than Rich Daley for Mayor,Lisa Madigan for Attorney General, Todd Stroger for President of Cook County Board,Lipinski's kid for Congress, and I cna go on and on....Frank Avila knows the concerns of people of our State and one of those concerns is HONEST Government! He would be the perfect choice!

Coconate and McDonough are both self centered immature twits. They both should be eliminated from this board forever. Nobody reads their blogs nor cares about their feud or their problems. This is about African American vote for Obama not about their personal stupidity.

Dis board iz nuttin wit out cocnuts. where du i get my humor wit my shown off da air. we need coco more den ever cuz stupidity rains wit him. who cares bout some fixed presidential election anyways. people prefer coco to obama.

The interesting thing is that Capt Snitchy is turning on his attorney who got his job backs and tries to attack 5-0. Maybe all is not well in the insane land of the anti-Daley fanatics.

Gee I wasn't aware that since I lived in the 45th Ward and voted for Senator McCain that I was a racist. No one called me that when I voted against Gore and Kerry. I work for the City, so I'm more or less forced to register Democrat. I have a tendency to vote Republican in national elections because they run the military.

Hey Brava, get with with the program you degenerate racist.

If African Americans who were pro-life and anti-homosexual marriage (according to referendums in 3 states) voted for Barack Obama because he was Black and not on the issues, is that racism? If whites disagreed with Barack Obama on military or foreign policy issues or had concerns about his character, is that racism? There is very little analysis of Barack Obama and a biased media.

it is a real shame the Reader boards have devolved into essentially unreadable personal feuding & horrible, repetitive cut-and-pastes. Could we at least get a character limit or something? It's sad to see important reporting hijacked, I never thought I'd see the day Tribune stories had more intelligent commentary from the public.

damn, that was fast, my faith is restored, thanks!

Congressman Luis G burnt the US flag and was associated with FALN terrorists who killed people and planted bombs--he even tried to get some pardoned. Most Latinos are hard working pro-USA not the con artist real estate fraud con man Luis G. A much better pick from the Latino community for US Senator would be either City Clerk former Senator Miguel del Valle or Commissioner Frank Avila of the Sanitary District both would be good and are reform minded and independent

Kate I love you for removing the Garbage and santitizing this board. Maybe now we can engage in intelligent discussions.

"KATE FAN November 10th - 3:39 p.m. Kate I love you for removing the Garbage and santitizing this board. Maybe now we can engage in intelligent discussions." That might be true, if only you'd never, ever post a comment here again.

Just so you know, whilst all the political punks bicker and bitch at each other, this is what your elected city officials really care about: "Hey ~ if the media is reading this, maybe they ought to know that the CPD bosses are telling us we cannot work any overtime (special employment-money WE NEED to live in this crappy city) unless we write tickets! Maybe the public would like to know that we are being blackmailed and that there is a ticket quota!! 11/12/2008 12:02:00 PM"

Hey SCC, Anything you can add to the kitty would be most appreciated. P.S. Vote Daley!