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the signaling of a "death knell" for the lakefront liberal bloc. He posited the possibility that the voting bloc might have not coalesced in the 1970s due to support for progressive policy so much as it had due to anti-machine sentiment. Emanuel was regarded to be an "establishment" politician.
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