The area I live in in Chicago is a quiet residential neighborhood of single-family homes—some small some large—and beautifully manicured lawns. Within two blocks of where I’m sitting as I write this are the homes of heads of city departments, Mayor Daley’s siblings, owners of small businesses, and commodities traders. The people in my neighborhood tend to be well-educated and well-informed, politically aware and involved. It’s what the pol who used to live across the street from me (his widow still lives there) called a “high clout-type” neighborhood.
There aren’t any political signs in the windows or on the lawns. Well, vanishingly few. In previous election cycles every house (or at least every other house) would have one or more signs—mostly supporting the regular Democratic Party candidate—in the windows or on the lawns.
I draw no conclusions from this. Make of it what you will.
