HYDE PARK — Hyde Parker’s went with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as their pick for Democratic nominee for president on Tuesday — but only barely.
Hyde Parkers like voting, with nearly two-thirds of registered voters going to the polls, and they also like Sanders, but only 110 voters (5,040-4,930) like him better than Hillary Clinton.
Sanders lost Illinois by less than 1 percentage point in Tuesday’s primary election.
If it was just Hyde Parkers deciding, he would have won by 1 percentage point.
Sanders attended college at the University of Chicago and has made several visits back during the campaign to talk about his time in the neighborhood during the civil rights movement.
The more affluent Kenwood went the other way, giving their votes to Clinton and in a much more decisive way.
Nearly 60 percent of Kenwood voters picked Clinton over Sanders.
Bill Clinton made a last-minute stop on Tuesday at the Kenwood polling place at Shoesmith Elementary School, 1330 E. 50th St., possibly giving Hillary Clinton a slight edge if voters were glued to Twitter all day to make a decision over who to vote for.
Both neighborhoods could probably agree that none of the other options were particularly worth voters’ time.
None of the other Democratic candidates garnered more than 1 percent of the vote and Republican candidates didn’t fair much better.
After losing Illinois on Tuesday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is probably wishing there were a lot more Hyde Park-style Republicans in Illinois. Kasich was the preferred Republican nominee in among the 766 voters who voted Republican in Hyde Park and Kenwood.
As progressive and liberal a place as Hyde Park and Kenwood may seem, there are still Donald Trump supporters in the neighborhood, but so few it wouldn’t be surprising if they all knew each other.
Trump won 20 percent of the Republican vote in Hyde Park and Kenwood, that’s 151 votes.
Somewhere out there in the neighborhood, there are three lone people casting a single vote for Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Carly Fiorina, and likely wishing they weren’t already out of the race.
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