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Rahm Emanuel wins Chicago mayoral vote
CNN ^ | 2-22-2011 | CNN political Unit

Posted on 02/22/2011 6:25:52 PM PST by Stayfrosty

(CNN) - Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, won the Chicago mayoral election Tuesday, topping the 50% threshold to avoid a run-off vote, CNN projects.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; corruption; election; emnauel; il2011; illinois; mayor; mayoral; obama; rahmemanuel; shockofthecentury; vote; wins
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To: Scythian
The people of Chicago are certifiable, they deserver the “Detroiting” that is coming thier way, it couldn’t happen to a more stupid group of people.

Amen to that. Do they ever!!

101 posted on 02/23/2011 5:31:40 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Stayfrosty

I wonder if the percentages matched the pre-determined vote counts? I mean, we can’t have any allegations of election fraud ....


102 posted on 02/23/2011 5:32:44 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: MinuteGal
Obama is now well-positioned for taking Illinois' electoral votes in the 2012 election.

He was never going to lose it anyway. What Cook County says, goes in IL presidential elections, especially with one of their own in the WH.

103 posted on 02/23/2011 5:35:20 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: guinnessman
Technically, this is the Democratic primary, but since there are no Republicans running, he also wins the general election.

Technically, NO!! Chicago mayoral contests have been deemed non-partisan, anyone can run, republicans and democrats on the same ballot, doesn't matter how many of each. If anyone from either party gets 50%+1 vote they win it ... if not, the top 2 vote getters have a runoff to determine the winner.

104 posted on 02/23/2011 5:44:17 AM PST by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: Stayfrosty

So Obama is sure to carry Illinois now...


105 posted on 02/23/2011 5:53:51 AM PST by Crucial
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To: Stayfrosty

Misleading headline. Sounds almost like there was an actual election.


106 posted on 02/23/2011 6:14:22 AM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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To: STARWISE

Surprising. Golisano was never as lefty before.


107 posted on 02/23/2011 6:17:34 AM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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To: Stayfrosty

Mayor For Life. He’ll excel at running a totally corrupt city government.


108 posted on 02/23/2011 6:36:51 AM PST by American Quilter (Fire the striking Wisconsin teachers--and their Democrat senators.)
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To: merryberry

Welcome to FR!


109 posted on 02/23/2011 6:40:02 AM PST by American Quilter (Fire the striking Wisconsin teachers--and their Democrat senators.)
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To: Stayfrosty

Chicago was a more honest town when Al Capone ran it.


110 posted on 02/23/2011 6:44:43 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; Impy; KevinDavis
C’mon, now. You’re not really mad at the fella who answered the phone, you’re really mad because Chicago coronated a psychotic Socialist thug with delusions of Godhood. Time to move to Tennessee, dude.

Well A) I am sick of the radical gays who run this city to the sewer.

B) I really was angry about missing the show and you can't download it on ITunes.

And C) I live in the suburbs but as you know this will affect everything from food prices at White Sox games to taxes in the city.

I was in a goofy mood this morning though. My dad was all angry about it and I told him, "Well dad this is wonderful for Chicago it is going to help our economy!!! He ansered 'what?'" I said, "Just think of all the bathhouses that are going to be seeing a huge surge in business now that we have a mayor who likes to go prancing around naked in public showers bossing people around!"

So that was my sarcastic take on this nightmare.

And like I told you I'm going down to Nashville in June I may not leave. Since we have now Wisconsin Senators and Indiana Senators here I think I may bail Illinois for a Red State. I love Nashville and am getting to the end of my rope with this state.

If I am redistricted to Bobby Rush's district then I am out of here. I am not going to be represented by a black panther who can't complete a coherent sentence.

111 posted on 02/23/2011 7:28:45 AM PST by Dengar01 (Go Blackhawks!!! Go Bulls!!!)
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To: wita

As it should be in a democracy.

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Which we’re not. We are a republic.

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*snip*

Granted, most Americans probably believe that the United States is a “democracy” because that’s what they’ve heard all their lives.

But I was stunned that a regular reader of this column would get Franklin’s quote so wrong. Franklin had used the word “republic” without coupling it to the word “democratic,” and the difference between a republic (a government of law) and a democracy (majority rule) is so incredibly important to preserving what liberties we have left that I hope you’ll indulge me in a brief history lesson.

If you remember much from your high school history classes about the founding of this country, you know there was a great deal of controversy about what type of government the newly independent states should create.

The first effort, the Articles of Confederation, was generally regarded as a failure. But what should replace them? Each state sent a group of representatives to meet in Philadelphia and hammer out a new agreement.

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended, eager to learn what had been produced behind those closed doors.

As the delegates left the building, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got?”

With no hesitation, Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Not a democracy, not a democratic republic. But “a republic, if you can keep it.”

Over the past four decades I have recounted this story several hundred times. For many years I traveled the country giving speeches about the threats to this Republic. I always enjoyed the opportunity to talk to high school students when I could wrangle an invitation. When I did, I loved to tell them about the differences between a republic and a democracy.

“A lynch mob is democracy in action,” I would say. “While if you believe someone is innocent until proven guilty, that they deserve their day in court and that a jury of their peers should decide their fate, then you believe in a nation of laws, not just the whims of a mob.”

Another line I used a lot was, “Democracy is five wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. If you were the sheep, which would you rather live in — a republic or a democracy?”

I told them about the importance of “binding men down with the chains of a Constitution.” That this was the only sure way to protect their freedom. And that anyone who wanted to change this republic into a democracy was an enemy of liberty.

A century or two earlier there would have been no need to give such a talk — and no interest if one did. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, every American who could read and write (and probably most of those who couldn’t), knew we were a republic.

The campaign to brainwash us into believing we were a democracy didn’t begin until 100 years ago. Today, if you take a poll of high school or college students, the overwhelming majority will tell you that we are a democracy.

Please don’t dismiss this as a mere quarrel over semantics. Understanding the difference between the two systems of government is absolutely vital. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that our very liberties depend on getting more Americans to realize the importance of this seemingly arcane dispute.

Our Founding Fathers Feared And Hated Democracy

Most high school students who heard me say such a thing were surprised and shocked. They had been taught that the United States was, and had always been, a democracy. That “majority rule” was the fairest of all possible forms of government. Who was this guy to tell them they’d been lied to?

So I quoted what some of our founding fathers had to say. I asked if they had heard of The Federalist Papers — the collection of articles written during the debate over ratifying the new constitution.

In The Federalist, No. 10, James Madison, often referred to as “the father of the Constitution,” had this to say:

… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

Alexander Hamilton concurred. In a speech he gave in June 1788, urging ratification of the Constitution, he thundered:

The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Fisher Ames, a member of Congress during the eight years that George Washington was president, wrote an essay called “the Mire of Democracy.” In it, he said that the framers of the Constitution “intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from despotism.”

Yes, our founding fathers were well aware of the differences between a republic and a democracy. They revered the former; but as I said above, they hated and feared the latter.

In view of the founders’ ardent convictions, it is no surprise that you cannot find the word “democracy” anywhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the U.S.

Indeed, the Constitution not only proclaimed that our Federal government should be a republic; it went further and mandated that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/chip-wood/3844-benjamin-franklin-had-it-right


112 posted on 02/23/2011 8:07:40 AM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Stayfrosty

Don’t wear a pro-conservative message, or have a pro-conservative bumper sticker while in Chicago. Rahm and his cronies will find a way to kill you and make it look like an ‘accident’.


113 posted on 02/23/2011 9:03:17 AM PST by Objective Scrutator (Liberals will kill your family if they are keeping a Democrat from a Congressional seat)
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To: muawiyah

Just recalling my state’s motto as a child.


114 posted on 02/23/2011 9:31:45 AM PST by Lesforlife (Fighting to end abortion in my lifetime!)
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To: Stayfrosty
Rahm reminds me of the mayor from The Dark Knight movie. Same political nature.


115 posted on 02/23/2011 9:38:21 AM PST by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: Stayfrosty

If Chicago elected him they deserve him......


116 posted on 02/23/2011 10:56:29 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Stayfrosty

Chicago will just go deeper down into the rat hole.


117 posted on 02/23/2011 11:22:55 AM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Ann Archy

Carol Mostly Fraud could not get 10% of the vote.

LOL I guess her career is over!


118 posted on 02/23/2011 12:15:09 PM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Shamrock-DW
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if an atomic bomb lands right on Chicago. Wish I didn't live within 200 miles of that most wicked of cities. Maybe the LORD holds off their judgment because there are 10 righteous there?
119 posted on 02/23/2011 2:34:22 PM PST by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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To: guinnessman
Technically, this is the Democratic primary, but since there are no Republicans running, he also wins the general election.

Which is a cowardly shame.

120 posted on 02/23/2011 2:36:31 PM PST by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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