{"id":80055,"date":"2018-11-07T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T22:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=80055"},"modified":"2019-05-27T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:46:26","slug":"18th-district-candidate-cho-embraces-a-landslide-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/18th-district-candidate-cho-embraces-a-landslide-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"18th District candidate Cho embraces a landslide defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Madison Yauger<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Republican candidate Julie Cho fell short of Democrat incumbent Robyn Gabel on Tuesday, losing the District 18 State Representative election by a current tally of 42 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Cho, 47, is a Korean immigrant and mother of three, who ran as a conservative for state representative, but diverged from many of the party\u2019s traditional platforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in the 18th district, so I didn\u2019t want to work with a fly-by candidate,\u201d said Cho\u2019s campaign manager, Bobby Burns. <\/p>\n

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One of the larger aspects of Cho\u2019s platform was redistricting reform, which aims to stop politicians from drawing legislative voting boundaries that would directly benefit their own campaigns, also known as gerrymandering. <\/p>\n

Burns, 32, explained this concept highlighting how a neighborhood can be divided into two different districts to \u201cdilute\u201d certain populations\u2019 votes, thereby limiting their chances of collectively electing one official. <\/p>\n

Joshua Hall, 25, a Cho campaign operations staff member stationed at Haven Middle School in Evanston, handed fliers to voters as they straggled into the voting center. <\/p>\n

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Joshua Hall, 25, (long coat), a staff member of Julie Cho\u2019s campaign operations staff, hands out fliers outside the Haven Middle School voting center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cA lot of people ask me \u2018Why don\u2019t you work with a Democratic candidate?\u2019 and I tell them I\u2019m an independent at heart,\u201d Hall said. \u201cI won\u2019t have an alliance to one party or another because there\u2019s backlash from the party that dilutes the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cho\u2019s opponent and election victor Robyn Gabel, 65, will begin her fourth term in office as state representative. <\/p>\n

Gabel\u2019s campaign manager, Christian D. Sorenson, 31, said, \u201cRobyn wants to continue the process of automatic voter registration. She\u2019s a big believer of one person, one vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

First-time voter Nolan Robinson, 19, a sophomore from Northwestern University, said, \u201cWe\u2019re in a time in our country where a lot of voters are not heard, so I wanted to use my voice and put people in power who will represent my family and me.\u201d <\/p>\n

Robinson voted for Gabel.<\/p>\n

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The Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center serves as one of the voting centers in Evanston, but shows a rather sparse turnout.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cho\u2019s other platform issues included commercialization of cannabis to create economic aid in low-income communities, and school safety in light of the prevalent mass shootings in the U.S. <\/p>\n

The campaign was not supported by the NRA, but did receive assistance from The House of Republican Organization with filing campaign finance reports. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis election didn\u2019t even consider a Republican, honestly,\u201d Evanston resident Melissa Brown, 66, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe partisan bickering must stop,\u201d Cho wrote on her campaign website. \u201cDemocrats and Republicans have to work together beyond occasional bipartisan bills. We have to stop blaming each other to advance selfish political agendas and share responsibility for the state\u2019s dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Electioneers talk to voters as they enter the Haven Middle School voting center, and hand them fliers and various materials about initiatives on the ballot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI got Julie to commit to running twice,\u201d Burns said. \u201cEven if she loses, it\u2019s not a loss. We\u2019ve got lots of data to use next time, and we\u2019re not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the election results, Cho said, \u201cWe did our best. I was pretty much a no-name Republican candidate in one of the bluest areas in the state, and we did what we could. Getting my name out there, and having people talk about our issues, that alone was a success. \u2026This isn\u2019t the end of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Election signs pepper the sidewalks of Evanston neighborhoods, promoting both state representative candidates, Julie Cho and Robyn Gabel. (Madison Yauger\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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