print friendly e-mail story e-mail headlines subscriptions Published: June 3, 2004 COLUMNIST: Pat Cunningham Rhetoric at odds with actual record One of the big disappointments of this presidential campaign year -- for me, anyway -- is that Illinois probably won't be one of the so-called battleground states. Polls show presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry so far ahead of President Bush in this state that neither party is likely to put a lot of money into campaign efforts here. THE SITUATION COULD change, of course, but most political observers don't expect that it will. Too bad. That means our local television...