A brief synopsis:

NYC wants to see if Chicago can meet their low estimates. Chicago needs to increase its numbers. The cities trade insults.

Numbers can best be boosted by insulting ethnic groups, blaming everyone but yourself for the fact that numbers are low, discouraging conflict because as we all know protests are fun and it's easy to get 100,000 people in the streets by taking a chill pill. And we can get really far by misreading people and not giving a shit about what anyone has to say. It takes a man to step in, play referee and solve the problem. Not.

Ms./Mr. Election posts election stats and wonders why someone thinks Daley had a mandate. No one said Daley had a mandate, rather there was the intimation that we all share the blame for apathy. One hopes that includes the people in this thread - I don't see too many lefties trying to propose an alternative.

Of course, New York elected a fucking Republican. Ball is in New York's court. Play on.