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  • Look on the bright side, Chicago—in Tuesday’s primary, voters showed their utter disgust with Mayor Rahm’s policies . . . in a roundabout way.

In my ceaseless search for good news, I’m declaring yesterday’s primary election a massive defeat for Mayor Emanuel.

So I’m probably being delusional as I scrape for scraps of good news.

But it was closer than expected. Jay Travis, the challenger, pulled just more than 47 percent of the vote. And she clobbered Mitchell in most of the black precincts—like those portions of the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and 20th wards that are in the district.

Hell, she even won 54.2 percent of the vote in the Fourth Ward, despite the fact that Mitchell also had Cook County president Toni Preckwinkle’s strong backing. That’s Preckwinkle’s home ward.

Similarly, check out what happened to Mayor Emanuel’s endorsed candidate in the west-side race for Cook County Board of Commissioners. Among city voters, Blake Sercye only won about 16 percent of the vote.

Almost 69 percent of the voters preferred to keep it a community school. Let’s see if Mayor Emanuel backs down.