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I dont disagree with the way it was handled. Optics matter by wpkirish

it should not have been done during school. Had they done it after school then it is more like a typical GOTV activity like souls to the polls for Sunday voting. Of course had they waited until after school they likely would not have had as many students interested in doing it.

What is intersting is that effort was focused on the Bring Chicago home initative. That initiative was defeated and the last numbers I could see were 173,217 to 152,248. Comparing Burke Oneill's numbers it looks like a substnatial number of people voted against the initiative but for Clayton Harris. Obviously will need to see final resuls but would not have expected to see that correlation.