There may not be a primary battle for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but the mayoral
runoff election in Chicago - triggered Tuesday by incumbent Rahm Emanuel's failure to get 50 percent of the vote - looks like it is going to serve as a proxy, with netroots progressives and
unions on one side backing Emanuel's challenger Chuy Garcia, and high finance and the Democratic establishment backing Emanuel.
The choice of a new leader for the
union representing teachers
in the District of Columbia — the first since a financial scandal sent its former president to federal prison last year — won't be decided until a
runoff election is held later this month.