Posted on 10/19/2010 9:58:20 PM PDT by TBP
This is just a little thing I got this morning from someone I ran into at breakfast, who works for one of the Aldermen here in Chicago but is well-connected in the Democrat fundraising machine.
I asked him first about the Chicago Mayor’s race and the big, hush-hush-don’t-tell-anyone, “secret” of the week is that Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ Attorney General, believes Rahm Emanuel is so weakened by his Obama ties that she thinks she can win the Mayor’s race…and become the first female Mayor of Chicago that people will actually recognize (because the REAL first female Mayor was Jane Byrne, whom people in Chicago still hate).
Madigan, I was told, thinks Pat Quinn is going to win the Governor’s race (I disagree) and so then imagines he’d win re-election in 2014, meaning Madigan’s lifelong dream of being Governor would be put on hold another 8 years. No one ever accused the Madigan family of being unambitious, or the sharpest knives in the drawer.
If Madigan thought Quinn was going to lose to Brady, her plan was to remain Attorney General and then run for Governor in 2014 — fulfilling her decades-long quest to become the first female Governor of Illinois and have the power to channel all manner of graft and corruption into her family’s personal political machine, of which she would supplant her father as head in the Governor’s Mansion.
The reason Madigan didn’t want to run for Mayor is because being Mayor of Chicago is a nightmare job. After 21 years of Daley as Mayor-Emperor, his successor is going to have Thunderdome-grade blood sport to contend with every day he or she is in office. This person will be so battered and bruised by the experience that any hope of running for Governor in the future would be quashed.
It appears Lisa Madigan now believes the Governorship is out of her reach, so she’s grasping for this other plum instead…and believes the Madigan machine can take down Emanuel, who does not have any sort of support base in the city. Emanuel’s people are telling prospective donors that he has massive “star power” and will win on that alone…but people aren’t buying it and Madigan smells blood in the water.
Somehow, I turned the topic from the Madigan Family Maneuverings to Christine O’Donnell’s Senate race in Delaware because the guy I was talking to did a lot of fundraising in New England during the 2008 campaign and I know he “gets” states up there better than I do, having never lived there.
He told me that Christine O’Donnell is going to get VERY, VERY CLOSE to winning in Delaware but he does not think she will win. But, he emphasized, “It’s going to be scary close for Coons”.
I then asked him if he thought Scott Brown would win in Massachusetts, and he said, “No, I was surprised. I thought Coakley would win but it would be close”.
So, I’m thinking Democrats are really very scared of O’Donnell.
They can’t make the mental leap to believe she could win…just like they couldn’t wrap their heads around Brown winning “the Kennedy Seat”…but they see that O’Donnell is “close” in the way Brown was “close” in his race against Coakley.
My gut tells me that “close” means O’Donnell will win this is support continues for her nationwide the way it did for Hottie McAwesome in his Senate race.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment didn’t like Brown anymore than it likes O’Donnell. It’s doing about as much for O’Donnell as it did for Brown, which is pretty much jack squat.
I don’t have anything concrete on this, but my GUT tells me that if we keep working hard for her that she’ll win…and defeat not only Coons, but the Cocktail Party GOP establishment too.
That was all I could get before the politico had to get back to his cinnamon rolls and bacon and I left the restaurant with my little pastries to go before walking around Chicago looking at Halloween costumes.
Here’s hoping all sorts of witch’s hats pop up all over Delaware on the heads of O’Donnell supporters this Halloween…to cast the spell that tips this race from “close” to “win” for CO’D.
The key is a united GOP coming out and voting for her.
I’m saying she will win.
That's some very true and funny stuff.
How much cash does she have left.
She needs to combat the media onslaught
they lied like a pack of hyenas today
I agree.
The RINOs are using her as a “we told you so” test case. Try to put the Tea Party folks back ‘in their place’ — setting up... for 2012. Sarah Palin. You’ll be hearing THE SAME arguments from the same RINOs in two years.
Mark it. Two years from now, Palin will generate, “We could win with a ‘centrist candidate’ and we need someone ‘less divisive’ — (in the back pocket of big business) — etc. etc.”
Delaware is a test run. That’s why they haven’t sent in the real $$$ to help her out. They want to check Palin’s power.
I’m more inclined to trust the Hillbuzz guys more than most other sources.......
they know stuff others don’t.
Coons political retaliation lawsuits coming to light could help.
Who wants to look at him for the next 6 years, anyway?
We’re all so focused on O’Donnell winning that we have forgotten how truly scary this coons guys is to ever come close to winning. He is a downright dangerous vindictive marxist scumbag. I feel sorry for Delaware.
Emanuel has a thick layer of slime to slough off. Maybe in Chicago he can do it, maybe not.
I suspect it was just an opportune exit strategy from a falling starship. It always looks better to appear upwardly (or at least laterally) mobile before the torpedoes strike...
Doesn’t this make sense when you add in the Obummer and Biden have been spending time and funds where there was a slam dunk win.
We are being mislead on the nature of a lot of these races. Especially COD in DE.
They elect him, they deserve him.
Oh if only we wouldn't all be stuck with him....but we would.
Democrats: yes, she will get very close to winning, but we have a few extra thousand ballots just in case.
The fact that they’re using so many resources to trash her tells me that the race is closer than we’re being told.
I hope she (O’Donnell) pulls it out. How sweet would it be to see Katie Couric, Mika Bryzenski and Meghan McCain have to say “Senator Christine O’Donnell”?
Oh yeah and Obama and Biden would have to work with her too (heh heh).
united gop? never...
Cheers!
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