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This a complicated topic, there’s lots of voting blocs and it goes way beyond black-white-Latino. It’s really interesting how the black community split among Preckwinkle and Wilson, with nary a vote for Lightfoot. I think many in that community don’t trust her after her years as a prosecutor working with and defending cops. Preckwinkle basically took her home turf on the South Lakefront, plus a respectable share citywide from CTU people and progressives. The more hardscrabble black neighborhoods on the South Side, plus the West Side, went for Wilson.

For white North Side voters that are predictably appalled by Chicago corruption, the Burke-Solis scandal breaking just weeks ago rocked this election. It knocked out Mendoza as a choice for North Side voters and probably reminded them in even stronger terms why they should not elect another Daley. Lightfoot was there with a strong ground game to capture those disaffected voters far more effectively than Vallas, Enyia, or the other remaining candidates, and she could plausibly claim to be a crusader against corruption.