We Ask America Poll: Rahm Emanuel Has Strong Lead In Race For Chicago Mayor

Sept. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- A poll conducted this week by We Ask America, an independent research and polling company, shows that Presidential Chief of Staff and former Congressman Rahm Emanuel has a strong lead in the race to be the next Mayor of Chicago.  The preliminary test of 2,365 Chicago voters shows that Emanuel leads among both white and black voters in the city that gave the nation President Obama and leaves some fairly well-known competitors “in the dust”.

“While this poll was for fun, it has some interesting findings”, explains We Ask America representative Gregg Durham.  “The list of possible candidates was largely built on speculation by political pundits.  As we pulled the trigger on this poll, we’ve found over forty possible candidates mentioned in published reports, with more queuing up for consideration. We wanted to narrow it down to ten (because there are only ten digits on a phone for an automated poll), so we added up the articles and chose the ten who were mentioned in the most clippings”.


The findings are as follows:

•   Alderman Ed Burke – 6.31%
•   Former Commerce Secretary (and First Brother) Bill Daley – 8.16%
•   Cook County Sheriff (and former State Rep) Tom Dart – 13.66%
•   Presidential Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel – 29.68%
•   Alderman Bob Fioretti – 2.95%
•   Congressman Luis Gutierrez – 12.81%
•   Cook County Assessor Jim Houlihan – 2.30%
•   Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. – 13.36%
•   Reverend/State Senator/Education reformer James Meeks – 8.21%
•   CTA Chairman (and former Housing Authority Chief) Terry Peterson – 2.55%


“The options were asked in alphabetical order using names only and no descriptive narrative” Durham continued.  “Name recognition played a big role in this survey and Rahm Emanuel has it for sure”.

We Ask America is a polling company based in Illinois.  The company calls nearly four million voters a year to ask their opinions on political races, key issues, consumer habits and scores of other topics important to its customers.

Please visit http://weaskamerica.com