[muawiyah]

Here's the way to look at Chicago region politics. First of all there's the Cook County Democrat machine. It's run by the old traditional immigrant groups ~ the Germans, Czechs, Irish and Serbo-Croats.

They got the Governor!

They got the Mayor of Chicago.

Then, there's the South Side of Chicago. That's the voting base that keeps the black Brahmins on the West side in power.

They think they got the Presidency.

Then there are the other minor centers ~ most identified by their county names, and then there's Gary-Hammond-East Chicago. There's a whole host of "other" immigrant groups there with a semi-independent black constituency in Gary big enough to keep Gary itself in the black voting column, if not keep the whole area there.

To the North side of Chicago proper you find Evanston which is dominated by Liberals of all sorts ~ even reformed Commies who no longer care to live in the older areas.

The thing that ties all the politicians in the region together is CORRUPT PRACTICES. These guys steal ~ and they steal a lot.

There's absolutely no way Obama is clean.

[teletech]

I was born & raised in Chicago and I am well aware of how it was or is run. Little Richie Daley learned well from the old man. I KNOW Obama is dirty and I hope and pray he is caught before he becomes president.

[Cuttnhorse]

Obama is so crooked he has to screw his socks on.