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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.)

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Apr 6, 05 @ 1:17 am

Comments

1. Patrick is a great Democrat.

   Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Apr 6, 05 @ 3:51 am

2. Castrogiovani was not a real factor.
   O’Connor was the most serious contender.

   Armando Saleh (a controversial Victor Reyes associate) was the campaign manager.
   Senator Sandoval did radio and was working precincts, and was working a precinct.

   Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Apr 6, 05 @ 8:04 am

3. That guy needs to stop painting with the windows closed

   Comment by So-Called Austin Mayor Wednesday, Apr 6, 05 @ 8:43 am

4. well…the author of that did say that the candidate had gone “virtually unnoticed” and that “his campaign is invisible”.

   It just didn’t dawn on him that those were bad things.

   Comment by Rich O. Wednesday, Apr 6, 05 @ 9:07 am

5. “The American Thinker”

   Bwahaahhhaahahaha!

   Comment by BuckTurgidson Wednesday, Apr 6, 05 @ 10:21 am

6. Peraica is a big winner.

   Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Apr 6, 05 @ 12:14 pm

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