council seats was unprecedented. chicago politics has been shaken up in a very profound way and he may have had a five to one spending advantage and all the power of incumbency to get him through, but he lost 44% of the vote. 250,000 chicagoans voted for an insurgent candidate who wasn t running six months ago. what about the money? what are your thoughts? rahm emmanuel came into the race with $24 million. one of the things that i think is really significant is i know the tenth ward i was outspent as well. it is pretty extraordinary what chuy did in such a short amount of time. he didn t have enough time to get those people together and push it forward.