1.   Victoria was a fiery mystic, a Stanford graduate who intimately understood the ward politics of San Francisco.

2.   For the next decade he was an active, if inconspicuous, figure in ward politics.

3.   From his father, the prototypical big city mayor of the machine era, Daley learned what you can do and can no longer do in ward politics.

4.   Nonetheless, his defeat Tuesday was considered a huge upset in the ward politics of Chicago, which in earlier times did not find indictments particularly troublesome.