Posted on 02/09/2011 10:51:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
February 8, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- ABC7's exclusive poll on the Chicago mayor's race provides a snapshot of how the candidates are doing as we head into the final two weeks of the campaign.
Rahm Emanuel's 54 percent share in the survey suggests an overwhelming lead, nearly quadrupling second place Gery Chico at 14 percent; Miguel del Valle was third at 8 percent followed by Carol Moseley Braun at 6; others at 3 and undecideds at 15 percent.
The ABC7 poll suggests that if the vote had been held during the survey, Emanuel had enough support citywide to win the election after the first round
The overall margin of error in the poll is plus or minus 4 percent; for white and African-American voters it is plus or minus 6 percent; and for Hispanic voters it is 12 percent.
The survey of 600 likely city voters was conducted exclusively for ABC7 by Richard Day Research. The respondents were contacted by telephone between February 3 and 7. It is the first independent poll to suggest that Rahm Emanuel had the support of over 50 percent of Chicago voters.
"Certainly if the election were the days that we were polling, it would have been 'one and done,'" pollster Richard Day of Richard Day Research told ABC7. "He gets majority with white voters. He gets a majority with African-American voters and a near majority with Hispanic voters."
Of the African Americans surveyed, 53 percent said they would vote for Rahm Emanuel, rejecting the black political leadership's call for a black consensus candidate.
"This day and age, it has to be for everyone, not just a particular voting bloc. Everyone needs to be interested in it," said Godfrey Lawson, a poll participant and Emanuel supporter.
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But Dead Fish is a close second.
I thought he was ruled ineligible. Then again, this is Chicago.
Seriously. BTW, is this a poll only of ABC"News" staff members?
Chicago LUUVVS their Thugs.
Politics in Chicago = Thugs and Goons Incorporated??
They’re just too stupid to know, aren’t they?
The people of Chicago pride themselves as being so tough. I guess that feeling is about to be put to the test.
Something is strange about this. Carol Moseley Braun at only 6%? She is black, a feminist, has been a US Senator and even an Ambassador. And sum up the African Americans, feminists and leftists in Chicago - and all she can manage is 6%????
Chicago apparently loves KAPOS too.
I am so surprised. Notttttt!
Wow - rotten to the core.
But who cares? That's just a peskey law...
To govern in the next 25 years is to take back what has wrongly been stolen from the public for the past 40 years to buy political favor.
Doesn’t this poll prove that blacks in chicago are uncle toms since they are choosing a white woman over a black woman?
This is absolute proof of just how broken our system really is. The truth is never allowed to come out anymore...it is all a marketing scam.
Why bother to have an election?
They already REDEFINED what “residency” means because he didn’t QUALIFY to be on the ballot. The court CHANGED the definition to accomadate the scumbag so I predict he will win. It wouldn’t matter if NO ONE voted for him. He will WIN anyway. That’s the way it is in Chicago!
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