The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Chicago's Mayor 1% Funnelled Teacher Pensions Into His Own Donors' Hedge Funds
A report that Rahm Emanuel’s administration invested money from the city teachers’ union in private equity funds run by some of the mayor’s biggest campaign donors is adding fuel to the charges that he neglects all but his wealthy backers.
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Why A Loss for Chicago’s Mayor 1% Could Be the Win Progressives Have Been Waiting For
Rahm Emanuel’s cascade of calamities points to larger problems within a Democratic party being tugged by neoliberals of the Clinton/Obama school and forces that oppose the party's long rightward drift.
