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Among Chicago's black voters, disenchantment grows with Mayor Emanuel
Reuters ^ | September 30, 2014 | BY MARY WISNIEWSKI

Posted on 09/30/2014 8:16:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Rahm Emanuel won election as mayor of Chicago three years ago in part because of his strength in the African-American community, but enough black voters have since soured on him that a black labor leader is emerging as a potential rival in the city's February election.

Emanuel easily won the majority of voters in every African-American ward in 2011 to become mayor of Chicago, the nation's third-largest city. Since then, a persistently high murder rate, the closing of 50 public schools and a sense that Emanuel is out of touch have hurt his position and invited a bid from Karen Lewis, president of Chicago's teachers' union.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: ballerina; chicago; mafia; socialist
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1 posted on 09/30/2014 8:16:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Karen Lewis is a joke, she can’t possibly win. The only reason she holds any position of power is because it’s in a progressive teacher’s union. In the real world, she’d be eaten alive.


2 posted on 09/30/2014 8:20:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Among Chicago's black voters, disenchantment grows with Mayor Emanuel

But, but, but Rahm (the devil's minion) was sent from "on high" by "The One" the antiCHRIST, caliph Hussein 0bama.

3 posted on 09/30/2014 8:20:30 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Apparently Rahm and Zero have both passed their sell-by date.


4 posted on 09/30/2014 8:22:59 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well I guess riots are next......


5 posted on 09/30/2014 8:25:50 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It ain’t good to be the white guy in charge when things start heading south...


6 posted on 09/30/2014 8:26:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sure.


7 posted on 09/30/2014 8:27:11 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Boogieman

She will win in a landslide............


8 posted on 09/30/2014 8:27:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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This is nothing new. This is just the natural progression for a large metropolis. First a city flourishes due to capitalism, then the Communist parasites creep in, then they incrementally take over government, white flight happens, then the decaying ruins are left to the black radicals. Nothing to see here folks. This is just the white Communist to black Communist phase of the transition.


9 posted on 09/30/2014 8:35:46 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: Red Badger

Chicago has a big Black Muslim population and they don’t need much to turn on a Jewish Mayor. Also, AA are the most antisemitic voting group {excluding Muslims}


10 posted on 09/30/2014 8:36:09 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: 762X51
This is just the white Communist to black Communist phase of the transition.

Simple, and yet profound, my friend

11 posted on 09/30/2014 8:37:44 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Progressives are doing great when promising free stuff and blaming others.
Dealing with real life problems, running a city or a country, not so much.

12 posted on 09/30/2014 8:40:39 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The real problem for “all” African-Americans is none other then Barack Hussein (Muslim Brotherhood Adoree) Obama!!! Ya can lead a horse to water...but you cannot make him drink!!! American Blacks will remain adrift-at-sea-without-a-paddle, until they realize that Obama & his CBC are not their friends, no allies!!!


13 posted on 09/30/2014 8:42:03 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

Rahm will have to open the flood gates to the freebies if he wants re-election............


14 posted on 09/30/2014 8:42:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m white, and I don’t much like his brother, Zeke.


15 posted on 09/30/2014 8:43:02 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Boogieman

I had thought that Emanuel couldn’t possibly win. For that matter, that’s what I thought about Obama.


16 posted on 09/30/2014 8:44:10 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Boogieman
I hope the blacks will consider her a joke. But blacks vote skin color. Remember that Obama never had a real job until POTUS and he was elected and reelected.
17 posted on 09/30/2014 8:45:17 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: 762X51

Yep, the Detroitization of another large American city.


18 posted on 09/30/2014 8:46:19 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Disenchanted? If you are looking for someone to fix your life for you, you will always eventually become disenchanted.


19 posted on 09/30/2014 8:53:33 AM PDT by all the best
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Emanuel easily won the majority of voters in every African-American ward in 2011

And the results next time will insure he remains seated.

20 posted on 09/30/2014 8:56:44 AM PDT by bgill
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