Will He or Won't He?

The Slum Times asks the obvious question:

• [...] Nearly eight years later, Emanuel is approaching that point of no return himself.
  
  He needs to decide whether to walk away or make the uphill climb toward a third term — and stick to that decision, no matter how difficult the campaign gets.
  
  If Emanuel waits much longer, he will risk looking like his political future is being dictated by the outcome of the trial of Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is charged with the murder of Laquan McDonald.

This lends a bit of credence to the rumors that we've heard here and elsewhere:

• Rahm's polling numbers suck

Those "paid for by Rahm" polls are pure speculation. Rahm isn't cracking 50%. He's not even sniffing 40%. He's stuck in the low 30% range and the needle isn't moving. Twelve candidates have chopped up the electorate so badly that it is 99% guaranteed that there's a runoff....and the runoff numbers don't favor Rahm at all.

Rahm isn't running to lose, and with the trial coming up, Rahm is almost certain to be dragged through the mud along with many of his handpicked morons, which will make all sorts of interesting campaign discussion....maybe even a few commercials. And that 30% number will dwindle some more.