NPR Interview with Clinton Emerges: ‘My Roots Are Conservative, I’m Proud I Was a Goldwater Girl’

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40. BUT, her father ran as a Democrat; lost in primary(1.5% of vote).

Being the notoriously ill-tempered person that he was, he then became a Republican with a vengeance.

Rodham tried politics once, running for Chicago alderman as an independent in 1947; he lost badly to the Richard J. Daley political machine that he was hoping to ingratiate himself with.

http://www.geni.com/people/Hugh-Ellsworth-Rodham/6000000002768891239

While Hillary was still in the womb, her father, Hugh Rodham decided to run for alderman of the 49th Ward. The Rodhams lived in Edgewater, in an apartment at 5722 N. Winthrop Ave. Hugh, a draper who had migrated to the city from Pennsylvania, was an outsider to Chicago, so his campaign was crushed by the ward’s political machine machine. The Democratic committeeman, Frank Keenan, won the election easily, with 65 percent of the vote. Hugh finished fifth, tallying 382 votes -- a measly 1.5 percent of the vote. That was the end of his career in electoral politics -- and the beginning of his enmity toward Chicago’s Democratic machine.

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Hillary-Clinton-And-Chicago-Politics--215092781.html#ixzz41KxHu3VC
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