It will only behoove his soon-to-be-ensconced mayoral stooge to get the Chicago vote out in sufficient numbers to overwhelm the rest of the state vote. This will include the dead vote and the illegal alien vote.
The Chicago electoral votes are now in the bag for the Usurper for the next presidential race.....he can check Chicago off the list and move on to St. Louis, Houston, LA and all the rest of the big cities. The Dems are always well-organized and have most major cities as lead pipe cinches.
The Pubbies better have an exciting presidential candidate or they're dead in the water. The Chicago mayoral race is a textbook example of a big city election organized and run directly from the White House running smoothly and perfectly from start to finish.
Leni
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.
I think that you are the right track. The Republicans picked up three formerly Democratic seats in outlying Congressional areas and this probably frightened Obama.
He will have to run up the vote totals in urban areas because in 2010 he lost the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas.