If either McCarthy or Vallas didn't run Daley would have secured a spot.
But the same thing can be said if Wilie Brown didn't run that his votes would have gone to some of the female black candidates.
14 running was too many. The Business community and the Rahm vote was behind Daley. But the turn out was so low, the largest minority majority is whites in population and votes. Blacks in second even though now there are more Hispanics but they do not vote as a high as a percentage.
The point is a very large segment that did vote were white, of course the teachers union white or rainbow voted for TP while the guilty Lakefront liberals voted for Lightfoot, I suspect.
The issue here is that we have no pro business mayor candidates thus far. I guess it will Coalesce around Lightfoot now that Daley is unable to make up the margin in a two way battle.
I want to know who Lightfoot's voter base is?
I see nothing pro business in her website or platform. But I suspect the business community and Daley will now have to support her in the runoff.
The fact that of the four top vote getters were black in a city with the largest percentage of whites voting is something.
Three of them were black, one a lesbian. The other black man was a joke.
So that is 43% of the total votes going to 3 blacks out of the top four and Daley getting at best 16%.
So add up those numbers and Bills numbers and clearly whites voted for someone else not named Daley even though those that did vote had good paying jobs and likely little memory of Richie.
I still think Rahm was the best choice and would have won in a runoff against anyone.
But who are all of these white voters coming out of the woodwork and demographics of them to vote for a LGBT black female over another black female in such a degree not even a staunch lifelong democrat that worked with Obama as Chief of Staff and commerce cabinet post and knows the ins and outs of DC and their money lines were inundated by whites voting for blacks? There are threads dedicated to the reverse migration from the Great Migration still posting in this site. The Black population will continue to bleed and lose population projected to 2035 where they will be 50% of what they were when Mayor Washington ran, who also needed a rainbow collection of north shore liberals, blacks and Hispanics and every other color in the spectrum in the early 80's.
Is there anything in Lightfoot's platform that is superior to PW concerning being pro big business . I see nothing to see that she will continue the Rahm like approach for poaching talent, from hopefully one day out of state one day, and I do not see much about her taxing program or how to pay to expand the CPS system.
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