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Originally Posted by whell
Do you live in the Chicago area? If so, was the electorate driven by sensitivity to increasing crime within the city, as has been reported by the national media? Or was it Johnson's agenda and union support that got him over the top?
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I belive I was pretty clear in my OP why Johnson won...
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Vallas still got a large percentage of the white vote, but there were too many white Chicago liberals who could not tolerate Vallas accepting the endorsement of an organization that recently re-elected pig Trump supporter Catazara as it's president.
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The 51/49 vote (Johnson won by 16,000 on a total vote of almost 600,000) was split by race. But there were plenty of white Democrat Chicago residents who were put off by Vallas accepting the endorsement of the FOP and it's racist, bigot, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-Semite, Trumper asshole president Catanzara. They were so revolted that they either voted for Johnson, or they just stayed home.
I grew up and spent my early adulthood in Chicago. We have lived in DuPage County for almost 50 years. Proud that after being dominated by Henry Hyde (remember the Hyde Amendment?), Peter Roskam and other vile Republicans for those 50 years, DuPage County went blue in 2018, again in 2020 and 2022, and after what has become of the Republican party, DuPage will never go red again.
I don't know anything about Brandon Johnson. But Vallas has been around a long time. He did a pretty good job as Superindendent of the Chicago Public School system. He is a moderate Democrat but on the same side of pretty much every political and social issue as me and the blonde. Even though he made a grievous error regarding the FOP endorsement, I would have probably voted for him.