Will Runoff Humble Rahm Emanuel?

“By some measure, everything ended just as it had begun. After an unexpected and unprecedented runoff election in the nation’s third-largest city, Chicago’s brash mayor, Rahm Emanuel, was still Chicago’s mayor,” the New York Times reports.

“Yet the fallout for Mr. Emanuel from the past six weeks — a period of frenetic campaigning and humbling public self-examination — will be lasting. A tangible bloc of dissent has loudly made its case in a city where Mr. Emanuel and the mayors before him had often governed with little effective opposition and most aldermen in lock step.”

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