This is what happens when doctrinaire partisans try to predict political outcomes.

[Regarding the Berwyn mayoral race] Virtually unnoticed in all the hoopla is the Republican candidate, Anthony Castrogiovanni. His campaign is invisible. But with a core of Republican voters behind him and the massive divisions within the Democrats, he has a chance to pull a really revolutionary upset and bring Berwyn into the Reagan Revolution. The only candidate without direct financial ties to the political status quo, he is Mr. Old Fashioned Natural.

On full medical disability pay from his job as a Cook County Sheriff’s officer (he has Crohn’s Disease) he has promised to cut spending and reduce taxes. A true heir to Ronald Reagan, 25 years later. And if the Republicans can get the turnout numbers that George W. Bush energized, he just might do it. And that would be a true sign that FDR Democrat liberalism is dying, both demographically and politically. A trend first publically visible when Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son Patrick turned Republican and joined the U.S. Army!

Castrogiovanni got 2.9 percent on Tuesday. (Link found via Google News, of all places.)