Do those 100K votes for a guy with zero – ZERO – name recognition prior to Lech Walesa’s appearance indicate any sort of nascent strength in online/Tea Party activism in Illinois? Or have people here been so beaten down by cynicism and the Combine that they have given up any hope for a reasonably non-corrupt government?

Also, any thoughts on Preckwinkle’s taking over as County Board President? Personally, if it’s a choice between the current crooks and another Hyde Park goo-goo leftist, I’m siding with the crooks.

If elected, he probably will not be able to get much done, as Jim Edgar found when he refused to cut corrupt deals with Madigan, Daley and Philips. OTOH, simply doing nothing represents a major moral and fiscal advance over the active and deliberate harm caused by Ryan, Blago and the ass-clowns in Springfield

I am told the answer is yes.

And you are exactly right that a high turnout by one community can tip a low turnout election, and that is obviously a big part of the strategy.

Hey, there are a lot of Polish people in Chicago, obviously. Does this candidate have a good ground game with that crowd? Like people who would turn out to vote in a low turnout election? See, I am channeling my inner 80s teen valley girl, which actually, since I grew up in Iowa I never talked like that.