IL-Senate: Le Alan Jones' (G) Challenge from the Left Worries Corporatist Democratic Establishment

From the Wall Street Journal:

LeAlan Jones shouldn't be having much success as a liberal Green Party candidate from the South Side of Chicago running for the Senate against a liberal establishment Democrat who has the ardent support of President Barack Obama. After all, Mr. Obama once held the Senate seat, and lived on Chicago's South Side, where he first won elective office on his strength in the black community.

But recent polls show the African-American Mr. Jones taking anywhere from 5% to 8% of the vote in Illinois—and posing a real threat to the Democratic candidate, State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, in his battle with GOP Rep. Mark Kirk. Democrats are worried . . .