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Call It A Comeback
play nice in comments, but be sure to drop any information you are picking up!
Anyone going to the Obama reception at the Hyatt? I’m going to if I can get out of work in time.
i’m heading down if it looks positive
Play nice? nah. I heard Norm Hill and Andy Martin were at a few sex clubs in Florida during the primary.
CBS 2 says Obama has it.
Please does anyone know the actual vote numbers
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Clintondemocrat,
Go to the Sun-Times site. Vote numbers aplenty.
U.S. Senate – Dem
Updated: 7:55 p.m.
17% of precincts reporting
Obama 117,531 57.0%
Hynes 45,433 22.0%
Pappas 18,042 8.8%
Hull 12,584 6.1%
Chico 9,136 4.4%
Skinner 1,778 0.9%
Washington 1,555 0.8%
8:20 pm.
Landslide for Obama.
U.S. Senate – – 5,427 of 11,745 precincts reporting
Name Party Votes Pct
Barack Obama Dem 444,958 63.0%
Daniel W. Hynes Dem 125,506 17.8%
Maria Pappas Dem 44,540 6.3%
M. Blair Hull Dem 40,265 5.7%
Gery Chico Dem 39,336 5.6%
Joyce Washington Dem 6,872 1.0%
Nancy Skinner Dem 5,215 0.7%
The amazing thing is that Obama is getting something like 60% of the SUBURBAN Chicago vote. I had been worried looking at a sea of Hynes signs here in the NW suburbs, but apparently for naught. This is an enormous victory, esp since it looks like we’ll be going up against Ryan (sorry, I mean JACK).
The most impressive figure I’ve seen was the CBS exit poll showing Obama winning 42% of the white vote – compared to 20-something for Hynes. Frigging UNHEARD OF for a black candidate with 3 serious white opponents.
Any idea how the 15th Congressional District is going? Trib has some results here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/elections/primary/chi-ushouse-primary.htmlstory , but only about 5% of the precincts have reported in.
I love Barack and these results are great.
However, Carol Braun got 40% or better in most white suburban areas in her upset Senate victory in the 92 primary. These numbers are not at all unprecedented for a black candidate. People sometimes get weirdly exaggerated impressions of perceived white racism.
It’s a great victory, but white voters have been voting for black candidates for decades.
10% ago the Hynes people were still saying that it was too early to call, that Dan was counting on the downstate votes.
Well, we’re at about 64% of the vote, and they’re right. Dan has climbed from 17.9% to 19.5%. It is still too early to say that Obama will get more than 50%.
What’s clear is that Hynes will be at least 25% behind.
Another thing I notice – this looks like the lowest vote total from the city in a long time. I don’t have data in front of me, but I think the city has always returned 600,000 ballots in contested senate primaries. They’re under 500,000 with almost everything in.
Turnout was fine in black precincts, but horrendous everywhere else. Hynes didn’t cross the 7,000 barrier in any of the strong machine wards except Papa Hynes Ward:
11 (Daley) 5994
13 (Madigan) 6819
19 (T. Hynes) 8695
23 (Lipinski) 5633
36 (Banks) 3481 (41%)
The top wards in turnout, the only ones with more than 12,000 votes, were
6, 8, 18, 19, 21 and 34
Of these, only 19 is a white ward. I can’t remember a primary where at least 5 wards didn’t return more than 13,000 ballots, and in this election, only the 19th got close. And based on strong Obama results in 19, that’s partly because the black voters moving into the ward turned out.
I’d love to be seeing higher turnouts, because turnout in a primary is kind of like a downpayment on the November bill. We still have a big job to do selling Barack to the state, based on these numbers.
It will be interesting to see how these big turnouts in black wards affect downticket races. This could be the end of Ed Burke’s domination of the Cook County judiciary.
God I hope so, the scumbag.
But who is the heir, if so.
I apologize if anyone objects to my monologue with myself here, but I’m having fun.
So here’s a short answer to the question I posed in the last post:
Pat Murphy upsets the machine to win an appellate judgeship!!
I don’t know the party nods in the other races, so I can’t make sense of the rest.
Judge William Haddad was the Daley pick for the O’Malley vacancy–but he was also the only Highly Reccommended Judge for that seat, and it looks like he’s not going to win. That really is unfortunate, he’s a great guy and excellent judge.