He will be lucky to hold onto Illinois.
Until this week, I usually discounted this idea as a pipedream. However, the "Freudian slips" by Clinton and the news about Obama backhanding the Daley's and the Chicago machine may have some validity.
Rahm controls Chicago and Cook County now, and owes his allegiance to the Clintons. Those are millions of votes, dead and alive. Rahm left much too early, and he was disgusted that Obama pursued Obamacare.
It was just hard for me to believe that Valerie Jarrett had more power than Daley, but she does.
"I also surmise that there’s another thing going on here, a Chicago game. Although Chicago is a One Party State, that party is rent into factions that barely coexist at the best of times, and battle viciously at others. Obama’s alter ego (or is it Svengali?), Valerie Jarrett, and Daley are from opposing, hostile, factions. Jarrett was not pleased by Daley’s presence. Jarrett is a hardcore progressive. Daley’s goal–as described by Chait–was to soften the progressivism.
Daley’s departure likely marks Jarrett’s victory. It also signals, as Chait suggests, a turn to a more hardcore progressive policy and strategy: if Jarrett has the wheel, there ain’t going to be any right turns. It is a move towards the Occupy types and a move away from the corporatist, Democratic party establishment personified by Daley."
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