Rahm Aims for Win as Chicago Votes for Mayor

[Geee]

Fox News:

CHICAGO -- The campaign to replace Mayor Richard Daley has unfolded unlike any in Chicago's history, and almost certainly will end with a mayor unlike anyone who's run City Hall before.

Voters in Tuesday's election will cast ballots that for the first time in more than two decades do not have Daley's name on the list. And they may select the city's first Jewish mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Or the first black woman, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun. Or the first Hispanic mayor -- either former Chicago public schools president Gery Chico or City Clerk Miguel del Valle.

Emanuel has been the clear front-runner in both the polls and fundraising since he resigned as President Barack Obama's chief of staff last fall. But he or one of the other five candidates on the ballot must win 50 percent of the votes plus one vote to avoid a runoff on April 5.

The five-month campaign took all kinds of unusual turns, even for a city where voting from six feet under is part of election lore. But after a race that included a challenge of Emanuel's right to call himself a Chicagoan going all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court and Braun accusing another candidate of being strung out on crack cocaine, some voters complained they had not heard enough about where the candidates stood on the issues.

[righteousmomma]

YEAH!! Now SIL can have his weekends back --just in time to start the Blago retrial.

 

(Frankly, I have had a hoot and a half reading some of the stories during the campaigning. No doubt about who will win. After all Rahm "knows Obama and he is the President" (In case ya haven't noticed )