What are the Polling Numbers?

Conehead can't raise money:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson spent more than three times the amount of money than he brought into his campaign coffers from July to September this year, according to new campaign filings.

  That leaves the freshman incumbent with just $379,471 in the bank — yet another indication of Johnson’s serious struggle to raise money for the uphill reelection battle he announced last month.

  In July, Johnson’s political checking account dropped to $631,309, down from $813,125 in the first quarter of this year.

  Johnson brought in $122,980 from July to September. The majority of his contributions are donations of $500 or less from individuals. The largest single donation he received was $10,000. The second was $5,000 from Mary Gardner, a prominent West Side organizer who Johnson recently nominated for appointment to the Chicago Housing Authority board.

  Johnson’s cash continues to pale in comparison to the $19 million of his top opponent, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. However, the mayor said he remains confident in his reelection campaign at an unrelated news conference Friday.

What he's really counting on is a push by the CTU to get him to the runoff.

Giannoulias has FIFTY TIMES the amount of money Conehead does. Even Mendoza only has about $2 million in her campaign coffers. 

We're about eight days from the Nominating Petition deadline (26 Oct). We'll see if the field thins out a little then.