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...lose the jobs under the secretary of state's office (despite the merit system), they are probably losing one of the few Democrats popular enough statewide to challenge Thompson in 1982. With the party itself weakened by internal squabbling in Chicago between Mayor Jane Byrne and State Sen. Richard Daley, Dixon's timing seems less that stellar...
...other major battlefield is downstate among rural conservative voters, who gave Carter a higher tally in 1976 than a Democrat usually gets. Like other conservatives, they are now leaning to Reagan. In Illinois this year, with no Daley at the helm in Cook County, anything can happen. Says Illinois State Representative Donald Totten, who heads the Reagan campaign in four Midwestern states: "There's a lot of switching around going on out there...
...Liebling, writing about Chicago in The New Yorker in 1952, coined the putdown Second City, Chicagoans have been perversely proud of it-all the more so when they could lay claim to the nation's tallest building (the Sears Tower), most durable big-city mayor (the late Richard Daley) and arguably the best symphony orchestra (under Conductor Sir Georg Solti...
While Cook County has filed suit in court challenging the preliminary census figures, city officials have begun checking the count on their own. Said Alderman Roman Pucinski, a protege of Daley's political machine, which used to be accused of casting votes for Chicagoans whether dead or alive: "The bodies are there. They are just not being counted...
...beholden to the old bosses," he says. Ranney now fears that all of the electoral reforms have not prevented the beholden of a different kind from entering through a "back door" of the convention. Since there are no longer power centers like Chicago's late Mayor Richard Daley, and only 69 Senators, Governors and members of the House were delegates this year, the new "boss" is Big Government, and in most instances the trail leads back to Washington and the Administration...