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Mayor Tue Nov 23 2010
Burris Mayoral Run Likely A Longshot
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Sen. Roland Burris's name is floating around as a possible mayoral candidate. The soon-to-be former senator is notorious for seeking office regardless of his prospects. Public Policy Polling looked at Burris's chances and it isn't pretty:
Roland Burris is the latest name being bandied about as a possible Chicago Mayoral candidate but our most recent Illinois poll suggests he wouldn't be a formidable candidate there. 35% of voters in the city approved of the job he was doing as a Senator while 37% disapproved.
Certainly those are a lot better than his overall statewide numbers where only 18% of voters approved of him and 57% disapproved. But those are still pretty bad for a sitting Democratic Senator in an overwhelmingly Democratic city. For sake of comparison Dick Durbin's approval in the city was a 62/28 spread.
My guess is that Burris' best possible outcome as a Mayoral candidate would be making a runoff and getting blown out in it.