A Guide to Topics Discussed and Ignored in Today's Election in Chicago

by The Awl February 22, 2011

by Mark Bergen

Discussed

• “Starving people in Africa”

• Coffee and donuts in an airport

• Jimmy John’s

• Bill Clinton

• Jesse Jackson

• Barack Obama

• A woman’s own mind

• The Black Candidate

• The White Candidate

• The Jewish Candidate

• “The Un-Rabbinical Master of Nine-Fingered Sign Language”

• A Twitter feed

• A landslide

• Hiring 2,000 more cops

• Cutting $1 billion from the budget

Not Discussed

• Paying for 2,000 more cops

• Finding $1 billion to cut from the budget

• “…Toxic diesel pollution breathed every day by hundreds of thousands of Chicago-area commuters.”

• Anything beyond the “same, shady answers”

• The city’s financial crisis

• Urban policy

• Racial segregation

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