Website Allows Users To Rate Rahm's Performance

By Chuck Sudo in News on Apr 26, 2012 2:00PM

The longer Rahm Emanuel is in office, the higher his negative approval ratings will rise. A recent poll conducted for the Chicago Teachers Union last month showed 47 percent of likely voters had an unfavorable opinion of Emanuel's job performance. Of course, this being the teachers union and with the threat of a strike looming, take that pool with a grain of salt. And take any polls conducted by the Mayor's office grading Emanuel's job performance with a box of sea salt.

Matt Danzico and Chirag Patel, the former Obama campaign volunteers who created the TabsonObama website, have now set up a similar site to grade Emanuel's job performance in a non-partisan manner. TabsonRahm gathered up all of the campaign promises Emanuel made during his march to Rahmageddon and asks visitors to the site to grade his job performance on these issues on a 1-5 scale.

"The purpose," Danzico and Patel write, "is to engage both the active voter and more importantly the casual voter to make a more informed decision in the 2015 Chicago mayoral election." Having spoken to some of the voters in Chicago we say good luck with that.

Other plans for TabsonRahm include reaching out to individuals and organizations on both sides of the political spectrum to write blog posts on issues facing the city and hold Emanuel accountable for his campaign promises.