Posted on 12/12/2017 9:47:41 PM PST by conservative98
Because this is Phil’s theme song and personal mantra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPTweZ2_fI
;-D
If we gain any seat in IL, I’m looking at Mark Kleine to upset rat Cheri Bustos in a district Trump carried. He’s raised a cool half mil so far, including 100K+ of his own money.
Doug will win the primary because he’s the most conservative Republican in that primary. The moderate primary vote will split, helping him win the primary. He’ll win the general election because Republicans won in the 10th District in 12 of the last 14 elections. I lived in that area for 17 years, in Great Lakes, North Chicago, Glenview, Mundelein, and Wheeling.
You don't think that when people start looking at their lost state and local tax deductions and what it does to their federal taxes it's not going to be held against the Republicans? In a upper class district like the 10th?
No, I don’t think that will happen. I think that the voters will think that we need more Republicans, in Congress, so that they can cut tax rates more.
By capping SALT deductions they just voted to increase taxes on many, perhaps most of the voters in the Illinois 10th Congressional District. And you expect them to elect someone to do it to them again? Are all voters in Illinois that trusting?
You are correct, those will be tough races for us; but I was responding to a poster who was predicting that the GOP would take both NV-03 and NV-04 yet lose the Senate election, so I was granting him his initial assumotion.
“He’ll win the general election because Republicans won in the 10th District in 12 of the last 14 elections.”
That's ironic Trump won Bustos district and performed very well there, I thought the RATs redistricted it to be "safe Dem" in order to purge Bobby Schilling (who had won under the old district lines in a big upset at the time, since a bigger name Republican, Andrea Zinga, had narrowly LOST it three times). Weird that Trump did so well in RAT areas downstate, while doing terrible in formerly "solid Republican" suburban areas in the Chicago area, like DuPage and Lake. Something like Roskam's district went Hillary while Bustos district went Trump? Cue Twilight Zone music.
Ideally, I wish we could defeat wife beater Bill Foster, and that guy with the impossible to pronounce last name that replaced Suckworth in the House.
Ain’t so many rat areas downstate any more.
Rock Island county elected a GOP State Senator in ‘14, our only pickup in either chamber that year.
Under the previous lines, we’d have kept that damn 17th district.
Zinga btw was only the nominee twice, in ‘04 and ‘06 and she wasn’t close either time.
https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=33877
Elise in NY has a strong primary opponent
The open NH seat will be a blast
Rural stuff is a awesome
No. He would have done an Al Franken. Keep counting till it comes out like you want it to.
Russ Finley? Tell him he needs a website, not just a facebook.
Hmm. Doesn’t show up in Google searches.
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