New Chicago Mayoral Poll: Women Love Rahm Emanuel?
It's interesting—in coverage of both the Chicago Tribune polls and the recent ABC7 poll, I haven't seen any mention of probable/likely voting differences between men or women (or, for that matter, age). But there's a new poll from the Illinois Retail Merchants Association with a pretty big sample size of 2,252 likely voters: 1496 women, 636 men, and 120 refused.
Rahm Emanuel polled at 67 percent among women, and "only" 59 percent among men; Gery Chico polled at 15 percent with women, 22.5 percent with men. The other big surprise is that it has Emanuel with 70 percent of the black vote, which sounds really high, but then again the last couple Trib polls showed a substantial increase in the undecided vote among blacks, and the IRMA poll doesn't allow undecided votes.
Also of note: Emanuel does better in the IRMA poll the older the poll respondent is; Chico's sweet spot is 35-54; Miguel Del Valle, probably unsurprisingly, does best in the 18-35 demographic.
Anyway, while I could easily speculate on reasons a lot of demographic groups would find Rahm Emanuel more or less appealing, I honestly have no idea why he might have a considerable advantage over Gery Chico with women.
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It's because Rahm doesn't have hair plugs...
It's because Rahm doesn't have nasty hair plugs...
Polls schmolls! 2,252 voters is still only one-tenth of one percent of Chicago's 1.5 million registered voters. I refuse to be influenced by polls. Let me cast my vote on election day for the person I find most qualified, not for the one I need to vote for so he can beat somebody else I like even less who appears to be winning in a poll. I am a woman not in the 18-35 demographic who will proudly vote for Miguel Del Valle--the most honest, experienced and exciting candidate in the bunch, despite his hair loss.
It's pretty shocking that so many women would favor Rahm when he thinks so poorly of women. Any man who admits he told a male White House staffer to "take out your f--- (explitive) tampon and speak up," is NOT someone you want making decisions in ANY office. It's 2011, right? Oh, that's right, we're going to slip back in time to when sending fish heads to people was considered the norm in Chicago (something else Rahm admits doing).
Like Mary456, I'm past the the 18-35 demographic and I WILL be casting my vote for the candidate that I believe will be the best for Chicago. Miguel Del Valle is the only one giving straight answers and proposing solutions. People need to vote based on the truth, not based on convoluted rhetoric.