Marathon Pundit: Rahm if you want to...

...Rahm around the world.

Next year's Chicago mayoral contest is about Rahm Emanuel. The other candidates, at least for now, are consciously and unconsciously , juxtaposed against the former Obama chief of staff by the media and the blogosphere.

Emanuel, the architect of the Democrats' successful 2006 and 2008 congressional campaigns, is getting a lot of blame for Tuesday's Dem debacle. But PrairieStater is having none of it--that blog is placing the onus on two other Chicagoans: Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod.

But former Sen. Carole Moseley Braun, who is also running for mayor, is still blaming Emanuel, says American Princess. Corrupt and inept, Braun was one of the worst senators in the history of the upper chamber. Emboldened by her failure, she ran for president in 2004; her exit from the race after endorsing Howard Dean before the Iowa Caucuses upset dozens. Expect similar results for her mayoral run.

Let's roam back to Rahm. While listening to William J. Kelly's Truth Squad this evening on WIND-AM Chicago, I was reminded that there is still doubt about whether Emanuel is a legal resident of Chicago.

Other announced candidates for the race are Gery Chico, current Mayor Richard J. Daley's former chief of staff and the former president of the Chicago Public Schools Board, state Senator James Meeks, and US Rep. Danny Davis, who Daley defeated in 1991.

Also weighing a run is outgoing US Senator Roland Burris, the Rod Blagojevich appointee, who was almost as embarrassingly awful as Braun while serving in Washington. Daley defeated Burris in 1995.

But it's all about Rahm--whether he lives in Chicago or not.

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