incumbent mayor and a friend of the president two a president who is very popular in chicago to mike flannery covers chicago politics far fox affiliate. this is a surprise. >> not necessarily. it was clear that the mayor was going to have trouble not least because he has made some very powerful enemies in the constellation of chicago politics the big public employee unions and the biggest of all, the most power of all is the chicago teachers union very upset that the mayor closed 50 schools and the move that led to a couple of thousand job cuts. >> never before has a mayor who was already in office for his neck and term not won this runoff? >> that is true. but the system changed a few years ago. this is the first time that we have had a mayor seeking a second term. john: you mentioned he became very unpopular after closing 50 schools. i think that this reason that it made him so unpopular is the way the mainstream media made it seem like such a radical idea. here is brian williams. >> 30,000 kids will be moved to different schools, most of them black. >> this is an attack on our kids and com