How Rahm Emanuel won black voters (according to Rahm Emanuel)

By artappraiser on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 12:57am |

By Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times, February 26, 2011

Rahm Emanuel’s jaw-dropping numbers in the African-American community gave him an undisputable win and raised the question: “How in the heck did he do it?”

After all, Mayor Daley got only 8 percent of the black vote when he first ran.

But last Tuesday, Emanuel racked up 59 percent of the black vote without the support of the city’s best-known black community organizers, politicians, clergy and civil rights leaders.

In an interview at his campaign headquarters on Friday, I asked the mayor-elect how he won over black Chicagoans.....

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