* Kinda old (January 27 to Feb 2) IZQ Strategies poll…

Paul Vallas - 25%
Brandon Johnson - 15%
Lori Lightfoot - 12%
Chuy Garcia - 12%
Willie Wilson - 11%
Kam Buckner - 5%
Sophia King - 2%
Ja’Mal Green - 2%
Roderick T. Sawyer - 1%

Undecided - 16%

Crosstabs show Vallas was getting 37% of White voters, 21% of Latino voters and 10% of Black voters. Brandon Johnson was backed by 18% of White voters, 5% of Latino voters and 16% of Black voters. Garcia got 14% of White voters, 25% of Latino voters and just 5% of Black voters. Lightfoot had 7% of White voters, 6% of Latino voters and 22% of Black voters. Memo here.

* But rather than focus on the somewhat dated horse race numbers, let’s look at some other toplines…

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of these public figures?

JB Pritzker 65% Favorable, 33% Unfavorable
Lori Lightfoot 26% Favorable, 72% Unfavorable
Jesús “Chuy” García 44% Favorable, 41% Unfavorable
Brandon Johnson 35% Favorable, 20% Unfavorable
Paul Vallas 46% Favorable, 31% Unfavorable

Chicago Teachers Union 57% Favorable, 40% Unfavorable
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police 35% Favorable, 55% Unfavorable
Chicago Police Department 56% Favorable, 44% Unfavorable

From the crosstabs, CTU’s unfavorables with Black voters were 29% (66% favorable), FOP’s Black unfavorables were 69% (20% favorable) and CPD’s were 49%.

Whites also had favorable views of CTU (57-42) and had negative views of FOP7 (35-55). Latino voters were split evenly on CTU while the majority had a favorable view of FOP7 (55-29).

Black voters were evenly split on CPD, while White (54-45) and Latino (62-37) voters had favorable views.

* Also…

Shall the City of Chicago reopen all of the closed Chicago Department of Public Health mental health centers in support of a city-wide crisis response program that dispatches mental health professionals and an EMT to mental health emergency calls instead of police officers?

Yes - 82%
No - 18%

Some policymakers in Chicago are proposing reforms that would reassign certain duties currently handled by the police department to another agency. These include reassigning traffic enforcement and certain 911 calls — related to homelessness, mental health, minor crime, and substance abuse — to unarmed civil officers, social workers, and EMTs. Police would still respond to situations that involve serious felonies or significant acts of violence.

Support - 74%
Oppose - 19%

The crosstabs show that both questions were backed by wide margins in every demographic tested.

The “crime” issue is just not as simple as it may appear to some.

1,040 likely Chicago voters using SMS responses, poll conducted in both English and Spanish, MoE was ±3 percentage points.