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Why no rock star pols in NYC?

Chicago, America's -- ahem -- second city, has produced a politician so charismatic that he can draw 25,000 people to a rally in New York, regularly has thousands of people clamoring to hear him speak and has invoked comparisons to John F. Kennedy.

In Los Angeles and San Francisco, two polished mayors carouse around town with modelesque girlfriends and are widely seen as political up and...

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