Early voting Plummets in Democratic Chicago

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

In a not-very-good sign for local Democrats, early voting in Chicago is way, way, way down from 2008 -- though ahead of the last off-year election totals in 2006.

As of Thursday, according to the Chicago Board of Elections, 28,476 people had cast ballots. That sounds good, but it's not even one-third of the 103,000 who'd voted by this point in 2008, when a fellow named Barack Obama led the ballot.

Can Democrats get out the vote like the late voting fraud specialist Alderman Fred Roti who at one time was a precinct captain in Chicago's old First Ward?