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      <title>Comments On: The voters have spoken&amp;#8212;God help us all!
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Patrisia Ramirez]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I was up at the crack of dawn to be at the polling place to place my vote for both Mandragon and Trutin, nothing makes me more proud than seeing two great people in the community not give in. I hope I had more time to help you both, but I promise that I passed the word around, but young people these days just don't trust politics and want nothing to do with it.
        
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      <![CDATA["Right, because there's a chance a republican [sic] can win in the general election on the west side of chicago. [sic]"<br>
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Oddly enough, the guy running against Derrick Smith in the Democratic primary was a Republican.<br>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chicago-lawmaker-charged-_n_1368783.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/c&hellip;</a><br>
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"It was a very unfortunate situation and circumstance," said U.S. congressman Danny Davis, a Chicago Democrat who supported Smith.<br>
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Davis said he asked voters in overwhelmingly Democratic Chicago to elect Smith despite his legal troubles because Smith's Democratic opponent, Tom Swiss, was a past chairman of the Cook County Republican party.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[imho]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[[["The west side re-elected a man who has been federally indicted. "<br>
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He wasn't elected the first time and it was a primary election.]]<br>
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Right, because there's a chance a republican can win in the general election on the west side of chicago.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Ben hates Twitter]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[" ... the movement itself is about raising awareness."<br>
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So are those commercials telling me I don't have to go more than three days with shit stuck up my ass because I am constipated. Fuck the twee, modern-day PR ego-boosting bullshit of "raising awareness."
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jason M Dye]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[While I believe that Occupy members should be invested in political reform at the local level, the movement itself is about raising awareness. If you're looking for an explicitly political movement, try the Tea Party.
        
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      <![CDATA["I would guess that far more than half of the Occupy protesters didn't vote in this primary"<br>
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I would guess that you are pulling that figure out of your ass.
        
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      <![CDATA["The west side re-elected a man who has been federally indicted. "<br>
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He wasn't elected the first time and it was a primary election.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[The original IAC]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Excellent points, I voted. Absolutely nobody who claims to feel as strongly about things as the Occupy protesters has any business not voting, so long as there are any races of the slightest importance on their ballot.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[I voted]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Where were all of those fucknuts "occupy" assholes? Shouldn't a big part of their mission have been to rally voters to the polls?
        
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          I voted]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Alonsoz]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Joe and Adolfo did what they could and should be proud of themselves. They had the option of staying home too but decided that they would attempt to make changes rather than let others make them.
        
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          <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Profile?oid=1581291">Alonsoz</a>]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[FGFM]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["That's the one where legislators voted to give an income tax break worth untold hundreds of millions of dollars to one of the world's largest trading companies, thus forcing the state to jack up everyone else's taxes to compensate for the tax money they're not getting from one of the world's largest trading companies."<br>
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The CME Group is not a trading company, it's a conglomerate of exchanges. You were actually closer when you claimed it was an options exchange.<br>
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"Even though CME's made it clear that they're looking for new and innovative ways to cut their payroll by getting computers to do the work that people used to do."<br>
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Like the guys who used to walk around on ramps updating prices on a giant blackboard with pieces of chalk.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[AnneSulli]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I know the feeling. I was supporting Paula Basta in the 14th dist who had the audacity to bring up "ethics".
        
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