Chicagoist: Alvarez Thumps Peraica for Historic Win

Kaonashi

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:27:37 -0600

He should have taken lessons from McCain on how a concession speech SHOULD be done. That horrible speech he made last night was enough to turn me away from voting for him in ANY lifetime.

ilr

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:36:33 -0600

I think if you look at other county races it shows that the machine was much more of a factor than the qualities of the candidates. Compare to the other county races where the relative qualities for the democratic and republican candidates were very different. I wonder how many voters don't even know what they will see when they get their ballots, and if results would change if they did. I started voting in California, where voters have been mailed that information for decades. Here, that info wasn't even available online until quite recently.

madvulture

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:12:46 -0600

regardless - she'll do nothing to step on toes, and everyone will wait to see if fitzgerald is kept on as promised or not

Chicago D

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:10:34 -0600

Machine? Ha! The machine was in the tank for her opponents in the primary. Tom Allen, for instance, was supposed to get a job before his ward was redrawn and he got pushed into a majority Hispanic ward. Now Allen is kind of . . . up a creek. I'd start learning the Espanol if I were him. I knew I would never vote for Peraica after he pulled that stunt of rushing the City/County Building when he ran against Toddler. That just came off as out of control and crazy. In other words madvulture, your analysis might be a little off. Maybe Chicagoans really (a) are Democrats, and (b) think Peraica is a jackass.

ophmarketing

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:55:46 -0600

That damned loudspeaker truck was reason enough to vote against Peraica.

ml180

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:38:09 -0600

Tony Peraica is starting to remind me of Jim Oberweis - he's going to keep running for something until he wins. That's not a good enough reason to vote for anyone.

rocketslide

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:33:22 -0600

Oh yeah, there were other elections too.

Navin

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:15:47 -0600

Here's to my fellow five percenters!

Chris F

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:15:14 -0600

Machine, shmachine. Tony Peraica is a douchebag. Just as losing to Todd Stroger doesn't actually make him a "reformer", his loss is less about "one party rule" than it is about whether we wanted Tony Peraica running the State's Attorney's office. Most of us, by a large margin, did not.

madvulture

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:59:01 -0600

Long live the machine!