I would be surprised if Obama won Illinois as bas as things are there. same with California. why would anyone vote to maintain their 12 to 15% unemployment rate?
Chicago along with Cook and some areas of the other collar counties will make certain Obama wins. All us downstaters could vote twice for any Republican and still get outvoted. Throw in a number of counties (such as Macoupin where I grew up) that don’t vote for anyone without the D behind the name (sadly in Macoupin’s case - all farmers there vote D) and Obama only loses IL if he doesn’t run. Up in Chicago, they don’t care about unemployment - they have never had a job. As long as their LINK card gets reloaded each and every month, there are no worries. In Cook County you can buy anything - and everything - with your LINK card. Maybe not legally, but who cares about that either? Fourth generation welfare recipients don’t have worries. There’s not a politician with a pair that will take their ‘free’ money away and they know it.