- AP Photo/Stacy Thacker
- Mayor Emanuel last Wednesday with Hillary Clinton, who was in town promoting her new book.
“Rahm re-election on ropes” a Sun-Times headline proclaimed May 10.
“Right now, Rahm is not connecting” with voters, Michael McKeon, the president of the firm that conducted the poll, McKeon & Associates, told the Sun-Times. “If he doesn’t do that, he’s gonna lose.”
The Sun-Times article about the poll provides a link from which “the complete poll results can be downloaded.” That link is to the website for McKeon & Associates, the polling firm. The website has a list of “media hits” from recent surveys the firm has conducted—but no information about the Chicago mayoral poll.
But people were putting weight on the Hispanic results, I reminded him. McKeon said he had no control over that. Then he himself put weight on those results. Emanuel’s support among Hispanics may really be higher than the poll indicated, he said, but the 2 percent he got “is a very negative trend” for the mayor.
—Although the number of women and men respondents was about equal (259 women and 252 men), Alderman Fioretti got 28 votes from men and none from women.
